Susan Sontag Quote

With the modern diseases (once TB, now cancer) the romantic idea that the disease expresses the character is invariably extended to assert that the character causes the disease -- because it has not expressed itself. Passion moves inward, striking and blighting the deepest cellular recesses.


Illness as metaphor (ed. Vintage, 1979)


With the modern diseases (once TB, now cancer) the romantic idea that the disease expresses the character is invariably extended to assert that the...

With the modern diseases (once TB, now cancer) the romantic idea that the disease expresses the character is invariably extended to assert that the...

With the modern diseases (once TB, now cancer) the romantic idea that the disease expresses the character is invariably extended to assert that the...

With the modern diseases (once TB, now cancer) the romantic idea that the disease expresses the character is invariably extended to assert that the...