I try but I can’t think of a single aspect of having cancer, start to finish, that isn’t an act in a pantomime in which my participation is guaranteed however I believe I choose to play each scene. I have been given this role. (There, see? Instant victim.) I have no choice but to perform and to be embarrassed to death. I wish you long life.
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Jenny Diski
Novelist and essayist
United Kingdom · 1947–2016
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British novelist and essayist and a contributor of more than two hundred pieces to the London Review of Books. Told in 2014 that she had inoperable lung cancer and pulmonary fibrosis, she wrote a seventeen-part cancer diary for the LRB from September 2014 until shortly before her death in April 2016; it was collected as In Gratitude.
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