Language's Inadequacies  0 notes  Nothing Left to Lose  "My jaw
throbbed.  Rubbing it with my hand seemed to have no good or bad
effect: the pain was deep and untouchable.  Because the pain was
genuinely unanticipated, there was no residue of anxiety to
alter my experience of it.  Anxiety and anticipation, I was to
learn, are the essential ingredients in suffering from pain, as
opposed to feeling pain pure and simple.  This alien ache was
probably my first and last experience unadulterated pain, which
perplexed me more than it hurt me.”  - pg 16, Lucy
Grealy, Autobiography of a Face  How much suffering is in our
head?  Filed under lucy grealy  3 notes  Time to Pretend  "Even
the tools I used I felt belonged to them; words, for example: I
wanted my own words.  But the ones I use have dragged through I
don’t know how many consciences; they arrange themselves in my
head by virtue of the habits I have picked up from the others
and it is not without repugnance that I use them in writing to
you.”  - pg. 51, Jean-Pa