Illness as Metaphor

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King Cobra snake in Malaysia. (reptile)

9 of the World’s Deadliest Snakes

Black widow spider

9 of the World’s Deadliest Spiders

Saguaro cacti dot the Sonoran Desert landscape at Saguaro National Park, Arizona. Formerly Saguaro National Monument cactus

Can You Drink Water from a Cactus?

Small, white rat (genus Rattus) on a glass table. (rodent, laboratory, experiment)

Cruel and Unusual Punishments: 15 Types of Torture

Ruminant. Deer. Red deer. Cervus elaphus. Buck. Stag. Antlers.

9 of the World’s Deadliest Mammals

Bog body. Head of Tollund Man. Died at about age 30-40, Dated to about 280 BCE early Iron Age. Found Bjaeldskovdal bog Denmark in 1950 near Elling Woman. Most well preserved bog body to date. Human remains mummified in natural peat bogs. mummy, embalm

9 Noteworthy Bog Bodies (And What They Tell Us)

Christmas tree, holiday, pine

How Did the Tradition of Christmas Trees Start?

Illness as Metaphor

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discussed in biography

In Susan Sontag
…works included On Photography (1977), Illness as Metaphor (1978), Under the Sign of Saturn (1980), and AIDS and Its Metaphors (1989). She also wrote the historical novels The Volcano Lover: A Romance (1992) and In America (2000).
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influence of “The Magic Mountain”

In The Magic Mountain
…in American writer Susan Sontag’s Illness as Metaphor (1977).
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