Eulogia Merle
Diseases attack the cells of the body.
Also those of language, words.
They destroy the syntax.
The difficulty of describing pain in a coherent way carries with it a particular loneliness.
In the medical consultation, the patient's doubting phrases come out choppy.
What is a priority to comment?
And how?
When more lucidity is needed, this seems like an unattainable privilege.
Finally, it is the medical jargon and the technical language of tests and analysis, devoid of emotion, that go to the aid of the patient's muteness.
The betrayal of the body puzzles, because it explodes that b ...
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