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On Bodies, Freedom and Change, with Olivia Laing

The Shakespeare and Company Interview

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Are You Trying to Develop a Vocabulary for Talking About the Body?

It's very hard, i think, to come to develop a vocabulary for talking about the body. Ithikthe thing with sonterk is and tring, i the right word, wic is a liar. The sort of public fronted sontag, who is saying illnesses utterly random, is not what the sontag of the diaries and the letters is saying at all. So there's a more vulnerable, more m tender narrative of questing that happens in sontag's diaries.

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