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Don't forget they stole an hour from you. I don't care if they give it back in a few months, if it doesn't come with interest then it's not a fair deal.
I've been sick with a cold all week, so I don't have much to add to the thoughts on the internet right now.
I first wrote "I've been fighting a cold" in that previous sentence. Fighting illness is a weird metaphor, and I think about it every time someone uses it. I think most often it happens when I see someone discuss a "Lost battle with cancer" and because the phrase is so ubiquitous, I'm not sure how often it has been examined. Well, I know Susan Sontag examined it with her manuscript Illness as Metaphor, which I haven't actually read. But I should fix that, because the wikipedia summary is compelling enough to make me want to dive into the full text.
I first heard about this particular work of Sontag's though a musical of all places. IN Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, a punk musical about the life and crimes of the 7th president of the United States. Jackson was a populist president, who among other things, vowed to root out disloyal appointees from previous administrations, defied the courts by refusing to enforce their judgements, and fast-tracked the ongoing genocide of the native population. Anyway, the musical has been on my mind a lot lately.
There's a song that's not really about Illness as Metaphor but called Illness as a Metaphor, in the musical and int name-checks Sontag at bot the beginning and end of the song. So it has been rattling around in my head all week as I have been stuck in bed, or coughing a lot because of post-nasal drip.
I am on the upswing, I can stay upright most of the day, and the body aches and chills have mostly subsided. So that's nice. Maybe next week I'll actually have something of substance to say.
I've been sick with a cold all week, so I don't have much to add to the thoughts on the internet right now.
I first wrote "I've been fighting a cold" in that previous sentence. Fighting illness is a weird metaphor, and I think about it every time someone uses it. I think most often it happens when I see someone discuss a "Lost battle with cancer" and because the phrase is so ubiquitous, I'm not sure how often it has been examined. Well, I know Susan Sontag examined it with her manuscript Illness as Metaphor, which I haven't actually read. But I should fix that, because the wikipedia summary is compelling enough to make me want to dive into the full text.
I first heard about this particular work of Sontag's though a musical of all places. IN Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, a punk musical about the life and crimes of the 7th president of the United States. Jackson was a populist president, who among other things, vowed to root out disloyal appointees from previous administrations, defied the courts by refusing to enforce their judgements, and fast-tracked the ongoing genocide of the native population. Anyway, the musical has been on my mind a lot lately.
There's a song that's not really about Illness as Metaphor but called Illness as a Metaphor, in the musical and int name-checks Sontag at bot the beginning and end of the song. So it has been rattling around in my head all week as I have been stuck in bed, or coughing a lot because of post-nasal drip.
I am on the upswing, I can stay upright most of the day, and the body aches and chills have mostly subsided. So that's nice. Maybe next week I'll actually have something of substance to say.