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Pain's Ghost: On Amnesiac — Triangle House

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There’s a certain freedom that comes with the kind of pain that suffuses the body: you are relinquished from the world’s niceties and hollow obligations. The limitations of your self— your bones, your mind, your heart— are utterly incontrovertible, and this comes as a great relief; things that you cannot bear to do simply cease to exist for you. When you’re at the bottom of pain’s well, there’s not much left to you but ugliness. If all you have there is snarling and darkness, then these things you embrace entirely and perform with abandon.

Pain’s Ghost: On Amnesiac Haley Patail Issue 26 Essay There’s a certain freedom that comes with the kind of pain that suffuses the body: you are relinquished from the world’s niceties and hollow obligations. The limitations of your self— your bones, your mind, your heart— are utterly incontrovertible, and this comes as a great relief; things that you cannot bear to do simply cease to exist for you. When you’re at the bottom of pain’s well, there’s not much left to you but ugliness. If all you have there is snarling and darkness, then these things you embrace entirely and perform with abandon.

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