Finally, I can post...

So apparently Google wasn't too happy with my email account. Luckily, that has been sorted out. My first post will be in response to the Body in Pain introduction. I found the most interesting part of the introduction to be part on pages 15-16 where Elaine Scarry discusses the process of the body externalizing its pain. I was definitely able to relate to this segment, and I'm sure others are able to, as well. How many times have you said, or have heard someone say, that you feel like someone has 'stabbed you in the back,' or that you're in so much physical pain that it feels as though there's a knife cutting into your stomach, throat, thigh, et cetera? These statements or externalizing our internal pain are so common in terms of expressing our pain because, as Scarry words it so nicely, we are trying to "make sharable what is originally an interior and unsharable experience." (Scarry 16) We have no idea was exactly is happening and causing the extreme pain within our body because we have little to no knowledge of our interior. Thus, we rely heavily upon these types of analogies to better explain the amount and quality of the pain we are feeling.