a: Tumor ~
b: demon baby
What:
"During her first encounter with cancer, Susan Sontag described a tumor as a "demonic pregnancy." "This lump is alive," she wrote in "Illness as Metaphor," "a fetus with its own will." She could hardly know that the comparison would become more than a figure of speech."
Useful?
Writer: George Johnson
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Where:
Date: Aug 21 2014 1:00 PM
# 6132 Critique Analogy