Summary of Anne Boyer's The Undying

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#1 They took a bunch of things from my system and reclassified them as elements in a different system. I was diagnosed with cancer.

#2 I was diagnosed with cancer, and it fell under the hard hand of science.

#3 I was diagnosed with cancer. Aelius wrote down the dreams sent to him by Asclepius, and he writes about the experience of living in a body and experiencing suffering in a specific historical moment. The dream journal itself is the rejected way of telling this story, but its existence allows us to hear the voice of someone who lived through this illness and who tried to make sense of it by writing it down. -> The Roman orator Aelius Aristides wrote down the dreams he received from the god Asclepius, and he wrote about the experience of living in a body and experiencing suffering in a specific historical moment.

#4 I have a cancer, and it is being treated with a lot of money and technology that I don’t understand.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Oct 4, 2022
• ISBN: 9798350032383

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Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

To take a set of objects and actions from one system and reclassify these as elements in another system is like fortune-telling. To a fortune-teller, birds flying north spell out tomorrow’s happiness, while tea leaves tell a story about two lovers and the third who will ruin them.

#2

There is a common unmarked and indefinite state of feeling ill that provides membership in a community of the unspecified. Discomfort in need of diagnosis forms a feeling-scape of curious pains and corporeal eruptions, all untamed by the category disease.

#3

Our century is good at producing nightmares, but poor at interpreting dreams. We spend all day staring at a screen, breathing through the bar graphs, and trying to