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'One of the supreme, and indeed painful, ironies of pain is that it is so very hard to communicate, yet it always demands to be given voice. Not only as involuntary cry or anguished moan, but in visceral metaphor, as ‘knife’ or ‘burning’, or in memoir or narrative accounts that seek to ‘flesh out’ this terribly isolating state of being. These attempts at giving language to pain seem to invariably fall short. We may listen to, or read, accounts of pain and feel pained ourselves, but this feeling is mostly the sorrow of realising the other person and their suffering is unreachable, and that the pain cannot be taken away.' (Introduction)
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Pain Speaking
Meanjin
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- Show Me Where It Hurts : Living With Invisible Illness 2020 single work autobiography
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