Feeling of discontinuity as a person. My various selves — h… - Susan Sontag

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Feeling of discontinuity as a person. My various selves — how do they all come together? And anxiety at moments of transition from one “role” to another. Will I make it fifteen minutes from now? Be able to step into, inhabit the person I’m supposed to be? This is felt as an infinitely hazardous leap, no matter how often it’s successfully executed.

Susan Sontag

As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980 · April 10, 2012 Verified in 1 source Sign up to see the complete provenance

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Susan Sontag (16 January 1933 – 28 December 2004) was an American essayist, literary critic, cultural theorist, and political activist.

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Alternative Names: Susan Rosenblatt • Susan Lee Sontag • Susan Lee Rosenblatt

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