Black Dogs and White Flags
Friday, August 31st, 2007 “I’m not a fighter,” confesses Pamela Bone, referring to the myeloma that’s depleted her strength in recent years. “If anything I’m a pacifist.”
Bone, the ex-Age columnist and astute social critic, resents all the war-tropes attached to cancer. Patients must FIGHT, she lists. The disease is BATTLE. Cells are BOMBARDED with MAGIC BULLETS. The story is […]