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Harold Brodkey

"Being ill like this combines shock - this time I will die - with a pain and agony that are unfamiliar, that wrench me out of myself."

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"Being ill like this combines shock - this time I will die - with a pain and agony that are unfamiliar, that wrench me out of myself."

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