The Pain Journal
Bob Flanagan
Flanagan was a performance artist who built a body of work with his partner Sheree Rose about pain, illness and control. This is his diary of the last year of his life before dying of cystic fibrosis at forty-three — funny, irritable, ordinary, and the closest thing anyone has written about what it means to have chosen pain and then have pain arrive uninvited. A landmark text if you think seriously about masochism.
What is in this book
Terminal illness and dying, described in daily detail. Depression. Accounts of extreme body-based performance art.
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