Status Updates From Beware of Pity (Penguin Mod...

I don't want any of you feeling in duty bound to serve me up my daily dose of your pity couldn't care less about your wonderful sympathy. —once and for all, I don't want pity.

What divine mercy, I think, that at least in sleep the crippled and mutilated know nothing about the form or perhaps the formlessness of their bodies, that in a gently deceptive dream at least their bodies appear to them beautiful and regular, that at least in the world of sleep, surrounded by the dark, suffering invalids can elude the curse to which they are physically chained.