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The English language took all this linguistic inspiration from space, but it wasn’t an equal exchange, because what we gave back, the language we put onto space, is not really doing the best job at putting the sublime into words.
A lot of it just seems to be looking around the house and thinking, “Oh, this thing looks a bit like that thing in space, let’s give it the same name – good enough!”
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CAROLINE CRAMPTON: A lot of the theoretical material that I'd read about hypochondria very much positioned it in this binary situation that either someone has, quote, real illness, i.e. illness that you can detect with a scan or a blood test or some other diagnostic tool, or "It's all in their head and it's made up," and those are the only two ways it can be. But, just personally, I feel like I'm pretty much constantly experiencing some combination of the two. And I think the idea that there is unwarranted fear: I don't think there is any such thing as unwarranted fear, to be honest.
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