Samuel Beckett Corresponds With Father Damien On Molokai
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Father Damien
was a leper. The doctors assured him that this was not the case. But he once scalded himself in his foot, and to his horror he felt no pain. Anesthesia had begun, and soon other fatal signs appeared." The stringency of segregation practised at Molokai is also noted here. "Henceforth he came under the law of segregation and journeys to the other parts of the island were forbidden." It is, moreov...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Iowa Review
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0021-065X,2330-0361
DOI: 10.17077/0021-065x.6924