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Now that I have D and wrestle with it every day, I seem to find things in what I read that would hint that the author has diabetes or at least some experience with it.
Regardless whether you like or dislike Clive Barker, don't you sometimes get the feeling from his writing that he has personal experience wrestling with the sharp objects we diabetics point at ourselves everyday?
Maybe, maybe not.
And Anne Rice. Some of the ways her victims give themselves over remind me of how I feel when getting blood drawn for an A1C, its like OK, I'm done fighting, here, take my arm, take my blood, take my soul.
Maybe I am reading too much into it.
I read somewhere that Hemingway was diabetic, but I don't detect anything in his writing that feels that way to me
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Permalink Reply by bikette on
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Hemingway did have diabetes when he took his own life in 1961, and his father had diabetes as well. I can sense his mental illness (bipolar) in his later writings and his characters seemed to reflect his dissatisfaction with the culture of his time. Isn't he the one who coined: "A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book"?
I think Mario Puzo (The Godfather) and H.G. Wells also had diabetes as did one of my favourites, Laura Ingalls Wilder. -
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Mario Puzo andH.G. Wells, I didn't know.
I didn't sense anything in their writing. Hmmmmm. I am probably all wet. -
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Permalink Reply by JeffD on
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I am an avid reader. I just finished Cormac McCarthy's book "No Country for Old Men". And I see all these parallels with diabetes.
For example, the main killer, Chigur, methodical, takes his time but is relentless. If he's on to you, its just a matter of time. And he adds a little element of chance with a coin toss.
Victims: there are guilty ones, innocent ones, the greedy, the generous, the violent, the passive. No real pattern. There is not a type of person in the book that can excape. The violence is like diabetes, takes no account of who you are or what you do.
I don't want to take the analogy too far, but itshows you what can happen when you have D on the brain while reading a book. -
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That's probably true with how everyone interprets their reading material and so many other aspects of art and literature. We're going to inject ourselves into the material whether we want to or not. And if diabetes makes up a large quotient of how we feel, then it's going to wiggle its way into so many other elements of our existence - either consciously or subconsciously.
On the up side, I think I'd rather have D on the brain when I read than say .... genocide! A penchant for mass murder can really darken an already mysterious plot. ;-) -
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