Carnal Acts: Essays by Nancy Mairs
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4/5. Collection of her work spanning many years. Demonstrating (1) that she gets better with age (who doesn’t?); (2) she knows it and feels a bit squirmy about early work (fair enough); and (3) that I read her differently now. I’ve always appreciated her, but she was on a different track, disability-wise, than I was. Her disease was progressive and mine wasn’t. That changes things.
Now my disease is progressive – was always progressive but has now progressed – whatever. And, suddenly in the past few weeks, an old friend is finding herself somewhere near the end of that long, slow slide down. That changes things. She knocked the breath out of me at least twice.
4/5. Collection of her work spanning many years. Demonstrating (1) that she gets better with age (who doesn’t?); (2) she knows it and feels a bit squirmy about early work (fair enough); and (3) that I read her differently now. I’ve always appreciated her, but she was on a different track, disability-wise, than I was. Her disease was progressive and mine wasn’t. That changes things.
Now my disease is progressive – was always progressive but has now progressed – whatever. And, suddenly in the past few weeks, an old friend is finding herself somewhere near the end of that long, slow slide down. That changes things. She knocked the breath out of me at least twice.