I recently reread ZZ Packer's Drinking Coffee Elsewhere. The part where Dina states her mother's fear of her father is what killed her stuck out to me unlike before. Illness is a not only terrible because of what it does to a person's body but what it does to the person overall. How does it feel to be sick? Besides the aches, pain and discomfort there is a large emotional aspect to illness that the author, Hawkins describes as being left out.
It is admirable to create something out of pain.
"The pathography itself can be seen as a reformulation of the experience of illness, as the artistic product and continuation of the intrinsic psychological act of formulation: It gathers together the separate meanings, the moments of illumination and understanding, the cycles of despair, and weaves them into a whole fabric, one wherein a temporal sequences of events takes on narrative form."
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