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Catttt Posted 11 years ago
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mythology of terror surrounding cancer
Does here "cancer" mean "cancer constellation"? If so, what is the relation between this constellation and the context of this paragraph?
"Such interventions may have as much to do with a fearful fascination
with the mutant and monstrous as with parodying new scientific practice, making solid the nightmares of distortion and uncontrolled mutation, the half-man/half-beast chimera common to all world mythologies, ghost stories and science fiction, to say nothing of the vast lived mythology of terror surrounding cancer."
"Such interventions may have as much to do with a fearful fascination
with the mutant and monstrous as with parodying new scientific practice, making solid the nightmares of distortion and uncontrolled mutation, the half-man/half-beast chimera common to all world mythologies, ghost stories and science fiction, to say nothing of the vast lived mythology of terror surrounding cancer."
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I think it refers to the disease. I don't really understand "lived" though.
- I think it refers to the disease.
- I don't really understand "lived" though.
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I think it refers to the disease. I don't really understand "lived" though.
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