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the slow-burn ache that pain pretends to be when it grows up and learns words
means Feeling or expressing intense, prolonged mental or physical suffering.
from From Latin 'angustia,' meaning narrowness or tightness — a cousin of 'angustus' (narrow) and the same root that gives us 'anxious' and 'anger.' The image underneath is bodily: a choking constriction, the throat or chest squeezed tight. It came into English through Old French 'anguisse,' carrying that sense of being pressed into a strait place where there's no room to breathe.
- root
- from Latin angustus, meaning narrow or tight
- body
- shares ancestry with anxiety and the choking word angina
- art
- Munch's Scream is its unofficial portrait
- duration
- unlike pain, it lingers and refuses to leave
edvard munch the scream — 1893 painting of a figure with hands to face on a bridge in oslo, expressing existential dread
sylvia plath bell jar — 1963 semi-autobiographical novel depicting mental breakdown and suicidal ideation
francis bacon screaming pope — 1950s series of distorted papal figures trapped in glass boxes, expressing psychological torment