Cancer as metaphor

[LARSSON at VAX1.Mankato.MSUS.EDU]

John M. notes:
"I'm very hot and cold on Sontag, and I'm not defending that     
position against using cancer metaphors (though the whole trope does become hackneyed
pretty easily, as some of you all have already indicated).  I just think it's pretty funn
y that
she inspired these riffs."


She *did* note the irony of her earlier metaphor and at least by implication
took it back.

Don Larsson, Mankato State U (MN)