Susan Sontag, As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980.
Tag: body

The dead body of Irene Richardson (28). She was the third woman murdered by serial killer Peter Sutcliffe, who killed her by repeatedly striking her head with a claw hammer and stabbing her in the chest several times. Sutcliffe murdered ten more women before being apprehended.

a body is just
a place to put yourself until something
better comes along.
Linette Reeman, from “Carrie Buck* and I Compare Surgery Scars,” published in The Penn Review

