We need new concepts, new identities and new sensations to experience the life that we are continue to breathe. We must embrace the fact that we are now in a new territory. We must accept that we can no longer look behind at our past. We must leave the comfort of our previously held thoughts and beliefs. The book requires the reader to become a traveller. The journey stopped being a physical endeavour, instead reaching plateaus and crevices that became Crosby’s new lived experience. Three miles into the 17 mile bicycle ride that was woven into a larger tapestry of 1000 miles to commemorate her 50 th birthday, the fateful accident occurred. The scene shared is that of Crosby on a cycling ride. There is a paradox in Professor Christina Crosby’s biography A Body, Undone: Living On After Great Pain–the paralysis that constrained her body so suddenly seems to have freed the language that we all possess and contain but which is generally consigned to a particular place in space and time.ĭetails about Crosby’s accident are astute, acute, and actual-there is no reflection, reliving or ruminating. Christina Crosby, A Body, Undone: Living On After Great Pain.
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