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Another line I've fallen in love with; 'Nothing is more punitive than to give a disease a meaning--that meaning being invariably a moralistic one,'.
— Jun 17, 2015 06:27PM
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Jo Kaiser
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I love the way Sontag breaks things down; 'This is the language of political paranoia, with its characteristic distrust of a pluralistic world,'.
— Jun 17, 2015 06:52PM
Jo Kaiser
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I love this line; 'Like TB, insanity is a kind of exile. The metaphor of the psychic voyage is an extension of the romantic idea of travel that was associated with tuberculosis. To be cured, the patient has to be taken out of his or her daily routine. It is not an accident that the most common metaphor for an extreme psychological experience viewed positively [...] is a trip,'.
— Jun 17, 2015 06:10PM
