"Illness is the night-side of life, a more onerous citizenship. Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick. Although we all prefer to use only a good passport, sooner or later each of us is obliged, at least for a spell, to indentify ourselves as citizens of the other place."
Maybe technology eventually will be able to prevent any illnesses. Could that be that Sontag's dual citizenship is one of the most basic characteristics of a human?
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