Or, by some extraordinary circumstance of character or support from a near one, that person manage to not only retain/regain self respect, but to earn the respect of others. ... When we look at a 'story of sickness,' it could be useful to add some 'medical' terms to the kit of tools we use for literary analysis. ... When a story is altered by sickness, what happens to the space the character has to act in? ... It may be that the character finds there is suddenly "not much time left," or "it's time for the things that are important," or time could be transcended altoget...

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