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".. Illness has a special way of robbing us of our agency. Illnesses attack with a slow, humiliating violence.. That's partly why there's little art explicitly about the 1918 flu pandemic, Elizabeth Outka explains in her new book, "Viral Modernism: The Influenza Pandemic and Interwar Literature."
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Citizen.Coping
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"One of the things that Virginia Woolf says in that essay “On Being Ill” is that illness doesn’t have a plot. It can be the same thing day after day. There’s a lot of writing by survivors who say, Can we stop the health journey motif? It’s not like that, and it puts too much pressure on people."
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