Nothing Becomes Something
Thomas Laqueur: Pathography, 22 September 2016
When Breath Becomes Air
by Paul Kalanithi.
Bodley Head, 228 pp., £12.99, February 2016,978 1 84792 367 7 Show More
by Paul Kalanithi.
Bodley Head, 228 pp., £12.99, February 2016,
“... cultures have been attracted for millennia. I think sometimes of the great French historian Marc Bloch on the brink of death: the teenage boy to whom he was handcuffed as the two were about to be executed by the SS in the summer of 1944 was terrified. ‘This will hurt,’ the boy cried. ‘No, my boy, it won’t hurt,’ ... ”