“That’s what’s hardest to deal with in a way, the way the physical difficulties lead to emotional difficulties, and there just seems to be no way out of it.”

     Would he want people to ignore the illness, and talk about other things? Or would he want them to talk about the illness? Or would it not make any difference what they said?

     The way he imagines it, more than anything else he would perhaps feel very lonely—he would feel that he was facing this thing on his own, and that whatever anyone else said, or didn’t say, the fact would remain that they weren’t facing it, and he was.

~Flesh