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The goal of the torturer is to make the one, the body, emphatically and crushingly present by destroying it, and to make the other, the voice, absent by destroying it. It is in part this combination that makes torture, like any experience of great physical pain, mimetic of death; for in death the body is emphatically present while that more elusive part represented by the voice is so alarmingly absent that heavens are created to explain its whereabouts.
The Body In Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World - Elaine Scarry (1985)
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Elaine Scarry, from On Beauty and Being Just
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Man can only be created once, but once created, he can be endlessly modified; wounding re-enacts the creation because it re-enacts the power of alteration that has its first profound occurrence in creation.
Elaine Scarry, The Body in Pain
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#no anticipation had prepared one to identify this figure#There's never been anyone like him before. And there will never be anyone like him after.#Elaine Scarry#what if there was no first#you don't know my attributes
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Annie Baker's Radical Now
Read this interview on the way home from the theatre; this part knocked me on my ass (so to speak I was on the bus lol)
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"To have great pain is to have certainty; to hear that another person has pain is to have doubt."
-- Elaine Scarry, The Body in Pain
Another book and quote I tend to think about when the RA is flaring. We have really, really got to fix the twisted sense that pain is somehow lesser simply because you aren't the one feeling it.
#chronic illness#chronic pain#elaine scarry#the body in pain#books and reading#books & libraries#books and novels#books
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From: Nancy Spero: 'Torture of Women' (1976), With an essay by Diana Nemiroff, a story by Luisa Valenzuela, and a text by Elaine Scarry, Edited by Lisa Pearson, Siglio Press, Los Angeles, CA, 2010
#graphic design#art#visual writing#collage#book#nancy spero#diana nemiroff#luisa valenzuela#elaine scarry#lisa pearson#siglio press#1970s#2010s
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Physical pain is able to obliterate psychological pain because it obliterates all psychological content, painful, pleasurable, and neutral. Our recognition of its power to end madness is one of the ways in which, knowingly or unknowingly, we acknowledge its power to end all aspects of self and world.
The Body In Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World - Elaine Scarry (1985)
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"The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World" by Elaine Scarry
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Sickness.
the ballad of the costa concordia - car seat headrest / self-portrait with bandaged ear - van gogh / a sher by fani badayuni (trans. mine) / the body in pain - elaine scarry / circle drawn in water - franz wright / poem 1188 - emily dickinson / cover - a little life / bodys - car seat headrest
#web weaving#sickness#poetry#art#excerpts#illness#car seat headrest#a little life#van gogh#emily dickinson#franz wright#fani badayuni#elaine scarry#pain#hanya yanagihara#words
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Elaine Scarry: Pain
“The absence of pain is a presence of world; the presence of pain is the absence of world.”
—Elaine Scarry.
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Beauty quickens. It adrenalizes. It makes the heart beat faster. It makes life more vivid, animated, living, worth living . . . The beautiful, almost without any effort of our own, acquaints us with the mental event of conviction, and so pleasurable a mental state is this that ever afterwards one is willing to labor, struggle, wrestle with the world to locate enduring sources of conviction—to locate what is true.
Elaine Scarry, from On Beauty and Being Just
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