The Two Kinds of Decay: A Memoir by Sarah Manguso

Author:Sarah Manguso [Manguso, Sarah]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Biography & Autobiography, Medical (Incl. Patients), Health & Fitness, diseases, Immune & Autoimmune
ISBN: 9781429940986
Google: uLxJNn6jJ_MC
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2009-05-26T23:57:35.862263+00:00

After my neurologist learned that, the test was more fun, because I never knew how I’d do.

Hobbies

Six months after the diagnosis, I decided that if I had enough hobbies, it wouldn’t matter if I stayed sick.

She’s sick, I imagined people would say, but she has so many hobbies.

My father drove me to a nursery where I bought a bonsai tree, and I took all the books on bonsai out of the local library and filled a notebook full of notes.

I found the book of chess openings my famous chess-playing great-uncle had given me years before, and started memorizing. The Ruy Lopez opening. The English opening—my favorite one because it has only two moves.

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