Sickness in Death Be Not Proud and "In the Gloaming"

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sickness makes a world of its own," for "Johnny came to feel that people not in the hospital were representatives practically of a different race," because all carried with them the knowledge of physical death, or at least its threat, thus making them, "from another planet. He [Johnny] banded together with his fellow patients, fellow prisoners, in a kind of mutual defense pact, calling out the external world. But how he envied the healthy outlanders! What Frances did was to give him an efficient balance between the one world and the other. She taught him to adjust himself to the life of the hospital while still maintaining active touch with what went on outside." In contrast, the narrator's hale and still healthy friend, despite his best intentions, seems to mock Johnny's ailing physicality. "It was I who was the epitome of the external world breaking in. Sometimes I was too exuberant; the contrast was too acute; and though Johnny loved my visit every evening and looked forward ...

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