Cover of the Oxford University Press paperback edition of The Body in Pain by Elaine Scarry, plain academic cover design in muted tones with the title set in serif type

The Body in Pain Took Me Two Months and I'm Still Not Sure I Read It Right

Elaine Scarry's central claim is that pain has no object, it isn't pain of or about anything, and once she says that you can't stop noticing it's true.

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