My artistic padlet by Kathryne Cassidy

Zero

2023-11-13 01:51:59 UTC

Pain

2023-11-13 01:52:34 UTC

Anecdotes

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"I accidentally left a burner on the stove going for two and a half days—a small blue fame, burning, burning, burning..." (37)

"I struggle to consider my pain in proportion to the pain of a napalmed Vietnamese girl whose skin is slowly melting off as she walks naked in the sun. This exercise itself is painful." (p. 33)

rblanchard241 — 2023-11-13 13:19:54 UTC

Zero

2023-11-13 13:20:44 UTC

"There is only one fixed point on the Kelvin scale-absolute zero."(29)

"Through a failure of my imagination, or of myself, I have discovered that the pain I am in is always the worst pain imaginable." (p. 41)

rblanchard241 — 2023-11-13 13:21:50 UTC

Zero

2023-11-13 13:22:07 UTC

"I like to imagine that a chicken at zero feels no pain" (29)

Zero

2023-11-13 13:22:38 UTC

"Zero, on the Celsius scale, is the point at which water freezes. And 100 is the point at which water boils"(29)

jpoirier25_ — 2023-11-13 13:23:37 UTC

"When I could no longer sleep because of my pain, my father reminded me that a great many people suffer from both insomnia and pain." (35)

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"The physical therapist raises me arm above my head. 'Any pain with this?' she asks. Does she mean any pain in addition to the pain I already feel, or does she mean any pain at all?......." (31)

Zero

2023-11-13 13:24:59 UTC

"At night, I ice my pain. My mind decends into a strange sinking calm. Any number multiplied by zero is zero."(29)

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“If no pain is possible, then another question—is no pain desirable? Does the absence of pain equal the absence of everything?”(28)

“On occasion, an extraordinary pain swells like a wave under the hands of the doctor, or the chiropractor, or the message therapist, and floods my body”(31)

“When I cry from it, I cry over the idea of it lasting forever, not over the pain itself”(37)

“The problem of pain is that I cannot feel my father’s, and he cannot feel min. This, I suppose, is also the essential mercy of pain” (38)