Joyce?s Kornblatt?s workshop yesterday focused on writing as testimony; writing that gives voice to stories that must be told.
As I sat quietly with the idea of ?writing as testimony?, distressing images from a recent Sydney Morning Herald came to me ? of Tony Nicklinson, a British man living in intense suffering after a brain stem stroke that resulted in him being immobilised but fully conscious inside his body: locked in syndrome. In the late 1990s, Jean-Dominique Bauby wrote, letter by blinked letter, about his experience of this nightmarish condition in The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.
Nicklinson has been fighting through British courts for the right to allow doctors to help him die; a fight he has so far lost.
There are numerous situations in which people can be rendered powerless to impact the course their life might take; any one of us could be rendered voiceless by circumstance.
Thoughts arose, again, of how extraordinarily lucky I have been in terms of the stroke I suffered; how fortunate I am to be able to write; to speak up on behalf of myself and of those unable to speak for themselves.
?
what if you or I
were locked in? who then would voice
our love pain despair?
?
Source: http://www.desneyking.com.au/?p=482
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