We Need A Word For The Opposite Of Trauma If Trauma Is A Wound That Has Heale

A cancer cell is an astonishing perversion of the normal cell. Cancer is a disease of pathological cell division — a cell that has breached all the rules of normal growth.

The hunger of the gene — to replicate, to survive, to propagate — is the most ancient hunger in the history of life.

Cancer is not a concentration camp, but it shares the quality of annihilation: it negates the possibility of life outside and beyond itself.