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Susan Sontag
Illness as Metaphor
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Jadey Editorial Director recommends this 1978 classic: "Its clarity was bolstering."
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Susan Sontag's essay is moving and analytical in equal measures. A memorable passage: "Illness is the night side of life, a more onerous citizenship. Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick. Although we all prefer to use the good passport, sooner or later each of us is obliged, at least for a spell, to identify ourselves as citizens of that other place."
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