/lit/ - Literature

>>19214729
Your autism is showing.

>>19118182
That story doesn't directly describe the sensation of pain. Like >>19115862 said; Wallace is drawing on literary tools to elicit empathy from people's own experience/imagination.

Directly state what a cluster headache feels like without evoking emotion or using similies. There aren't words. You could make an argument that a description of anything isn't direct and the point of Woolf's observation is literary--pain is grounded in individual physical experience and describing it is like describing the colour blue to a blind person.

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>>19011211
Xir, you are a true scholar. That little artistic flourish was surely left for future academics of the coming (non-binary) ages to ponder over; surely not our myopic early 21st-century minds.