Blue Labyrinth
“Every movement, even the tiniest, was an agony. Just breathing in enough air to oxygenate his blood sent white-hot needles of pain through the muscles and nerves of his chest. He could feel a dark presence waiting at the foot of his bed, a succubus ready to climb on top and suffocate him. But whenever he tried to look at it, it vanished, only to reappear when he looked away.
He tried to will the pain away, to lose himself in the contents of his bedroom, to focus his concentration on a paint...ing on the opposite wall, one in which he had often taken solace: a late work by Turner, Schooner off Beachy Head. He would sometimes lose himself for hours in the painting’s many layers of light and shadow, in the way Turner rendered the sheets of spume and the vessel’s storm-tossed sails. But the pain, and the vile reek of rotting lilies—cloying, sickly-sweet, like the stench of suppurating flesh—made such mental escape impossible.
All his usual mechanisms for coping with emotional or physical trauma had been taken away by the sickness.MoreLess
He tried to will the pain away, to lose himself in the contents of his bedroom, to focus his concentration on a paint...ing on the opposite wall, one in which he had often taken solace: a late work by Turner, Schooner off Beachy Head. He would sometimes lose himself for hours in the painting’s many layers of light and shadow, in the way Turner rendered the sheets of spume and the vessel’s storm-tossed sails. But the pain, and the vile reek of rotting lilies—cloying, sickly-sweet, like the stench of suppurating flesh—made such mental escape impossible.
All his usual mechanisms for coping with emotional or physical trauma had been taken away by the sickness.MoreLess
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