Being ill like this combines shock - this time I will die - with a pain and agony that are unfamiliar, that wrench me out of myself. (Harold Brodkey)

Being ill like this combines shock - this time I will die - with a pain and agony that are unfamiliar, that wrench me out of myself.

Harold Brodkey

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