Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that…

Susan Sontag
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Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt. ✨ Susan Sontag (2013). Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors, p.71, Penguin UK
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Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt. ✨ Susan Sontag (2013). Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors, p.71, Penguin UK

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