Missives from the Verge with Allyson Shaw

Missives from the Verge with Allyson Shaw

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Missives from the Verge with Allyson Shaw
Missives from the Verge with Allyson Shaw
NAPPING ON THE FAINTING COUCH OF GIANTS

NAPPING ON THE FAINTING COUCH OF GIANTS

or, our very own rest cure

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Allyson Shaw
Mar 10, 2024
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Sleeping Woman With a Cat by Władysław Ślewiński, 1896

Illness is the great confessional

—Virginia Woolf, On Being Ill.

The invisibly ill are a brave yet shambolic company. We hurt. Sometimes we are full of immobilising sorrows or numbness. Our souls are so damn tired they have sacked out for the foreseeable. Misdiagnosed, given weird cures for centuries, …

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