{"product_id":"153108","title":"About being sick ","description":"\u003ccenter\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:center\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/tmgdisk01.cafe24.com\/images\/vs\/4172\/sv\/WQt5mXPogHwOMmMeR9m9Mp.png?v=1764956699\" style=\"max-width:100%;max-height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\u003ccenter\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"width:95%\"\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:center;font-size:30px;font-weight:bolder;line-height:1.6em\"\u003e About being sick \u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd 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style=\"line-height:1.2em;text-align:center;font-size:18px;color:black;font-weight:bold;padding-bottom:20px;\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\n\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"text-align:center\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/image.yes24.com\/goods\/138468017\/XL\" style=\"max-width:100%;height:auto\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"width:95%;{split_style6}padding-top:20px;padding-bottom:20px\"\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left;font-size:16px;font-weight:bold;padding-bottom:20px\"\u003e Description \u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left;word-break:break-all;font-size:14px;line-height:1.6em;\"\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003ch5\u003e \u003cb\u003eBook Introduction\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e \u003cb\u003e“It is a beautiful and musical book.\u003cbr\u003e “Every single word is as precise as a musical note.” _Kim Hyun-kyung (anthropologist, author of People, Place, Hospitality)\u003cbr\u003e \"Surprisingly, this book will have many moments that will make you laugh.\" _Kim Myeong-nam (translator)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A story about pain is a story about everything, about humanity.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e: An essay with delicate and profound insights into 'living with a sick body'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e This book is the first solo essay by author May, who has deeply explored the meaning of suffering from illness through her translations of works such as “Living with a Sick Body” and “The Suffering Body.” It contains the author’s unique answers to the fundamental and complex questions raised by physical pain and illness.\u003cbr\u003e A 'sick person' who has suffered from chronic pain for a long time, a painful but difficult to cure disease with an unknown cause - this book contains the life and thoughts of a writer, but it is far from a traditional struggle with illness or a drama of human triumph. \u003cbr\u003eFrom the long history of sick-writer narratives, such as the Book of Job, that describe the hardships and suffering caused by pain, to the writings of writers like Alphonse Daudet, Virginia Woolf, and Susan Sontag about their own illnesses, this is a unique and elegant humanities essay that explores with beautiful reasoning and prose, ultimately reaching the fundamental question of what it means to be a \"human being with a body.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e This book is not a memoir of a struggle in the traditional sense.\u003cbr\u003e This means that this is not a book detailing personal experiences of illness, following a narrative of diagnosis, treatment, and recovery.\u003cbr\u003e It is not a practical book providing information and advice about hospitals, doctors, and treatments.\u003cbr\u003e It is not a memoir that details the difficulties and the process of overcoming them.\u003cbr\u003e This is not a record of all the waves I've encountered.\u003cbr\u003e Rather, this book is about what I learned and thought while living within a specific condition\/situation\/limit condition in my life when the condition became a condition. \u003cbr\u003eThis is a book about 'reading and writing about being sick.'\u003cbr\u003e It's a book about words and pain.\u003cbr\u003e This is a book about the education of pain.\u003cbr\u003e This is a book about gravity, the force that pulls us down to the ground.\u003cbr\u003e This is a book about living in a body that is monstrous, painful, and miraculous.\u003cbr\u003e _Main text, pages 19-20, \"Beginning the Story\"\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003e You can preview some of the book's contents.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cspan\u003ePreview\u003c\/span\u003e\n\n\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003ch5\u003e \u003cb\u003eindex\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e Prologue: Return\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Starting the story\u003cbr\u003e Body: Tomb, Sign, Place of Salvation\u003cbr\u003e genesis\u003cbr\u003e The Art of Suffering and the Art of Writing\u003cbr\u003e So small that it's almost invisible\u003cbr\u003e Painting of Pain\u003cbr\u003e For the successful interpersonal relationships of the sick\u003cbr\u003e The Story of Pie\u003cbr\u003e Writing the History of Pain: Alphonse Daudet's \"La Doulue\"\u003cbr\u003e What the bottle gave\u003cbr\u003e Coming from nothing\u003cbr\u003e Virginia Woolf, Portrait of a Writer, a Woman, and a Sick Person\u003cbr\u003e Books and phrases for young patients\u003cbr\u003e gravitation\u003cbr\u003e We shed our leaves like trees\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue: Sea of ​​Notes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e main\u003cbr\u003e Recommendation\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgements\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003ch5\u003e \u003cb\u003eInto the book\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e  \u003cdiv\u003eThe arrow of doubt also points outward.\u003cbr\u003e Then the sick person becomes a revolutionary rather than a religious person.\u003cbr\u003e The cause of the disease lies outside, in society, in the country, in the system.\u003cbr\u003e The most frequently cited concerns include unhealthy food, toxic living conditions, unsafe work environments, long working hours, corporate greed, and poverty.\u003cbr\u003e At a more fundamental level, neoliberal capitalism, racism, and sexism all threaten health.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e --- p.29\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The Greek word 'hamartia', which is translated as 'sin' in the Bible, is said to have originally meant 'to miss the target'.\u003cbr\u003e That was something that wasn't there in my previous life.\u003cbr\u003e Target, point, gist, core, center.\u003cbr\u003e All I did was wander around anxiously, distracted, and in that sense, I was a sinner.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e --- p.31\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThe self-consciousness of a writer who conveys his pain as a sick person but does not endlessly complain, the skill to convey what cannot be said through the words that can be said, the composure that does not succumb to easy victory or easy despair, the self-respect that does not use pain as an excuse for trivial writing, the ethics that do not hide the darkness that one sees but also do not adorn oneself with it, the self-discipline that one works hard at every day for a long time, the balance that recognizes that one's pain is unique and absolute but at the same time the countless sufferings that exist in the world, the amazing leap that turns isolating pain into an opportunity to broaden one's horizons.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e --- pp.46~47\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Without words and stories that serve as mirrors, we cannot see what we have experienced from outside the scope of that experience.\u003cbr\u003e We know ourselves by reflecting on the similarities as well as the differences.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e --- p.67\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A sick person is an open wound.\u003cbr\u003e Touch him.\u003cbr\u003e There will be an outpouring of crying and complaints. \u003cbr\u003eTalking to a sick person is like walking through a minefield.\u003cbr\u003e He will shake a fine sieve of accusations, filtering every word you use, and sometimes the relationship itself.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e --- p.92\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Language emerges only when we distance ourselves from the sick body.\u003cbr\u003e If there were a piece of writing that conveyed pain in its entirety, and thus was written without a single bit of distortion, there would be no one who could read it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e --- p.112\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e For those who aren't sick, the truth is simpler.\u003cbr\u003e For them, happiness comes (only) from health.\u003cbr\u003e The experience of being sick is negative in all dimensions and aspects, both personally and socially.\u003cbr\u003e Sick time is a waste of life and a time of falling behind.\u003cbr\u003e A sick person experiences only loss.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e --- p.137\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e fun.\u003cbr\u003e Fun is precious to a sick person.\u003cbr\u003e It might be better to create happy moments between hardships and gradually increase the number of such moments. \u003cbr\u003eGetting better isn't just about getting rid of the pain.\u003cbr\u003e If you can enjoy pain, it's better (this is not just my opinion, but what pain researchers consistently say).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e --- p.162\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “When you are sick, think of how vast the kingdom of the sick is.\u003cbr\u003e Think of all of us here.” Think of all of us here.\u003cbr\u003e I did that.\u003cbr\u003e A friend of mine once said—a living, real friend—that Wolff was the patron saint of sick women, and for me, that was true.\u003cbr\u003e Virginia Woolf was my absent friend, my fellow invalid, my patron saint who, in her absence, could be everywhere.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e --- pp.165~166\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e There is nothing beautiful in pain, weakness, or suffering.\u003cbr\u003e The passivity of being subjected to and tormented by things that happen regardless of my will is simply miserable and disgusting. \u003cbr\u003eIf there is beauty in suffering (and beauty is a word we must use), it lies in our response to and adaptation to suffering.\u003cbr\u003e The 'beauty' I find in the sick Virginia Woolf, and in all other stories of the sick, is nothing other than that kind of activity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e --- pp.201~202\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Context is always important in speech, but this is especially true for people in pain.\u003cbr\u003e Depending on who speaks, in what situation, and how the words are conveyed, the same words can become a knife or a lifeline.\u003cbr\u003e Additionally, a sick person who is overwhelmed by their own misfortune is not a good conversationalist in the first place.\u003cbr\u003e I get angry even if someone says they know about this pain (what do you know) and I get angry even if they say they don't know (how can you not know this).\u003cbr\u003e I get sick and tired of being told what to eat or not to eat, and what is good for my health (Is there anything I haven't tried?).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e --- p.209\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eI am now belatedly re-evaluating the time of survival that I thought was a time of miracles.\u003cbr\u003e Maybe I've just been living all those years like a racing dog, chasing after a fake bait.\u003cbr\u003e Because ‘that place’ was always right in front of my eyes.\u003cbr\u003e And at the end of this painful journey, the words I never wanted to hear, these are all there is to it.\u003cbr\u003e Has there ever been a dog that realized the rules of the game while running and stopped and whined?\u003cbr\u003e Do you know what wakes me up?\u003cbr\u003e Anything.\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e --- p.225\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003ch5\u003e \u003cb\u003ePublisher's Review\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003cb\u003eAs much as we empathize with the suffering of others,\u003cbr\u003e It's not easy to fully convey your pain to others.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Even if they don't experience mental or physical illness themselves, people listen to the stories of the sick and their pain.\u003cbr\u003e This may be the reason why works of art with the theme of pain have continued from ancient times to the present. \u003cbr\u003eThis is because the very feeling of pain is an undeniable condition of life that all humans cannot avoid.\u003cbr\u003e From the stories of these sick writers, we can either feel fortunate for our own stable and 'normal' lives, or we can experience indirectly the hardships of being human.\u003cbr\u003e But more than anything, I find comfort and solace in their stories and art, confirming that the pain they seem to be experiencing is universal.\u003cbr\u003e \"I'm not the only one who's weird, am I? I'm not the only one who doesn't have an answer, am I?\" (pp. 36-37)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e However, it is nearly impossible to convey to others and have them fully understand the absolute pain that occurs only within one's own skin.\u003cbr\u003e Not only is it difficult to reproduce suffering, but it also demands active compassion and solidarity from others who must accept it, beyond a sense of duty.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e If you want to sort out your current relationships, I recommend getting sick. \u003cbr\u003eYou will learn about various techniques that people use to change the subject when they confess that they are having a hard time.\u003cbr\u003e You will learn about the feeling of not being able to answer calls and begging.\u003cbr\u003e You will come to know the words that are spoken as you close the door, sometimes coldly, sometimes shyly.\u003cbr\u003e You're not the only one having a hard time.\u003cbr\u003e I don't like talking like that.\u003cbr\u003e How about facing it with a little more composure?\u003cbr\u003e Why are you crying on the phone?\u003cbr\u003e _Main text, pages 87-88, \"For the Sick's Successful Interpersonal Relationships\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“How lucky I am.\u003cbr\u003e “I must always live with gratitude.”\u003cbr\u003e : How to Represent Pain Without Objectifying It\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eIn \"Life of Pi,\" which contains reflections on the suffering and survival of the protagonist in the movie [Life of Pi], the author talks about the problem of alienation of the suffering subject that is inevitably caused by the superficial representation of pain, and the desire to convey the truth gained from painful experiences to others.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Those who have suffered pain unknown to anyone hope that their listeners will be moved by the secret wisdom about life and death they have gained from it.\u003cbr\u003e However, the expectations and reactions of the listeners are usually limited to catharsis through testimonies sharing miraculous experiences or shocking true stories.\u003cbr\u003e So how can we have a 'good' story about suffering?\u003cbr\u003e How can we perceive the truth that the world of ordinary normality ignores and misses? \u003cbr\u003eHow should we write 'Pi's Story' as a story that \"breaks down the barriers between you and me\" (p. 107) and as a story in which the sufferer is the author of the story?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e But amidst all the cheers, applause, and praise, the boy sensed that something contrary to his intentions was happening.\u003cbr\u003e I wanted to tell my truth.\u003cbr\u003e I wanted to say something that shook my whole life.\u003cbr\u003e But my truth doesn't matter to you.\u003cbr\u003e My real life doesn't matter either.\u003cbr\u003e All that matters is that he is a boy who survived a terrible experience.\u003cbr\u003e I am the misfortune, the accidental victim of fate, everything you wish to avoid, the other who solidifies your normality and makes you appreciate it.\u003cbr\u003e _Main text, pages 102-103, \"The Story of Pi\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe art of suffering and the art of writing,\u003cbr\u003e Portrait of Virginia Woolf, the Writer, the Woman, and the Sick\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThe highlight of this book, \"Virginia Woolf: Portrait of a Writer-Woman-Sick Person,\" discusses Virginia Woolf as a sick person and the long-standing clichés that repeatedly conjure up Virginia Woolf as a frail, sickly, and disadvantaged female writer.\u003cbr\u003e The melancholic Virginia Woolf, constantly plagued by the urge to die in the film [The Hours], or the Virginia Woolf portrayed as a pale woman in profile, are unsurprisingly typical derogations of female intellectuals.\u003cbr\u003e In this essay, the author meticulously unfolds Virginia Woolf's life and work, connecting them to her chronic illness, quietly and cheerfully overturning the simplistic and often violent perspectives on the sick, women, and intellectuals.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThe persistent attempt to pinpoint Virginia Woolf with the keywords of childhood misfortune, lifelong suffering from manic depression, and suicide obscures Woolf's outstanding abilities and struggles as a writer, her cool intellect and chatty humor, and her tenacious sincerity as a publisher—all aspects of her as a leading intellectual.\u003cbr\u003e But regardless of the long history of misogyny evoked by vulnerable and insecure female intellectuals, Virginia Woolf, the writer-woman-sick woman, stands outside the closed circuits of thought that dichotomize her fortunes and misfortunes, as “the patron saint of sick women” (p. 204).\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eLiving in pain is the opposite of happiness, a sick life is synonymous with suffering, a sick life is a lesser life and has nothing to do with words like desire, achievement, success, pleasure, 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