On Being Ill they are always characteristically original

they are always characteristically original in their examinations of the 'biological division of labour'

Kvaliteten af det menneskelige liv kan ikke bare måles på de muligheder og ressourcer

vaske håndklæder og lave cowboytoasts til gæsterne

om kærlighed og om livet og døden

On Being Ill they are always characteristically originalAlways to have sympathy, always to be accompanied, always to be understood would be intolerable. Virginia Woolfs essay begins by lamenting the surprise neglect of ill health as a potential literary subject. What then unfolds is a dazzlingly written series of reflections on sickness, fiction, and the chilling indifference of the natural world. Above all a testament to the fundamental solitariness of the human soul, this is an indispensable work by the