Words Hatty Nestor

In Susan Sontag’s Illness as Metaphor she distinguishes between the ‘kingdom of the well’ and that of the ‘sick’, this latter space which is ‘the night-side of life’ that all of us are ‘obliged, at least for a spell, to identify ourselves as citizens of’. These kingdoms of sick and well are places we all at times find ourselves subject to – they are both geographical and metaphorical spaces.