Breaking the world of intelligence into two, By installing the division between the groping animal and the learned little man, Between common sense and science.

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Ranciere
The Ignorant Schoolmaster

His success fit into a certain pervasive narrative of cancer – that cancer is something you “defeat,” something you “beat,” less a disease than a test of character.

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We enabled Lance
Samuel Freedman

Also running through 19th century women’s novels and poetry were out-of-control characters, “maddened doubles [who] functioned as asocial surrogates for [more] docile [female] selves.”

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Maureen Corrigan on The Madeoman in the Attic
NPR

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