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The Art of Convalescence

Ted Monroe

A Substack about how art and literature can help those with chronic illness through the dark times

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Seeing Double –

Hello and welcome to The Art of Convalescence.

A few days ago, at my parents’ house in Northumberland, I had sudden onset diplopia. One minute I was staring vacantly at the chair in my bedroom, the next, there were two chairs, not juxtapos...

12 days ago
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A Room with a View

Why does a prisoner, on entering his cell for the first time, go straight to the barred window to look outside? The window is an aperture to a world he can no longer access, to the freedom he has foregone. But is also a gateway to daydreams...

a month ago
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Virginia Woolf's 'On Being Ill' & other essays on illness

‘Considering how common illness is … it [is] strange indeed that [it] has not taken its place with love and battle and jealousy among the prime themes of literature.’ Virginia Woolf wrote these words in her 1926 essay ‘On Being Ill’.

For...

a month ago
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With Sympathies to Miss Trunchbull

They’re all mistakes, children! Filthy, nasty things. Glad I never was one – Miss Trunchbull in Roald Dahl’s ‘Matilda’

The first few weeks and months of post-viral illness are the most important ones. If one behaves sensibly, and rests, th...

a month ago
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Confessions of a Long Covid Convalescent

I never expected to find myself in the back of a Chinese massage parlour on the Finchley Road. But what happened next was even more surprising.

And, yes, you have guessed correctly: what began as a rather delightful manipulation of the rho...

2 months ago
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