Hypochondria

"Unlike most illness narratives, Hypochondria has no interest in eliciting our sympathy or indicting antagonists. The hypochondriac’s desire is a wish to know, to gather knowledge about the unreadable – and as a provisional procedure, it speaks to our anxiety about and taste for the mysterious." – Ron Slate, On the Seawall

“[O]ne mind’s effort to reconcile its impressions of the world, however dist...