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The Unsharability of Pain

Pain isolates and silences the sufferer

Whatever pain achieves, it achieves in part through its unsharability, and it ensures this unsharablity through its resistance to language.

— Elaine Scarry, The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World (New York: Oxford University Press, 1985), 4

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Ryan writes for weary pilgrims learning to follow Jesus through the wilderness. He served as a lead pastor at a church in Southern California for 8+ years. Before that, he worked as a software engineer for a decade. Today, he lives with his family in Escondido, California.

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