Burning from the Inside: Bauhaus (video)

Bauhaus from Burning From the Inside; Gothy Gothison, CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

LYRICS: "Kingdom's Coming"

Madness in the wind's got something to say

It ripped you apart

It will always be that way

It said, kingdom's coming, causes chaos

Will cut to pieces

The film you saw today

It's your big bad secret

Your crown of thorns

You want for nothing, nothing at all

Sky will open soon, could be today

(Can't look back, back again)

Your kingdom's coming, coming today

(You want it all, but it's on the run)

Can't take it easy, can't turn back

(The sky will open soon, could be today­)

Forget your bastard ego, get it off your back

(Your kingdom's coming, coming, coming today)

Can't just look back, back again

(Can't take it easy now, can't turn back)

You want it all, but it's on the run

(Forget your bastard ego, get it off your back)

The sky will open

"Burning from the Inside"

Running without aim

Through the razor reeds

That only reach my knees

And when I'm lying

In the grey sleep

I don't know how

To walk the boards

I open my eyes

And look at the floor

And now I don't see you

Anymore

There is no choice

We make a point

To counteract
A threatening hand

Close my hold

Let's be near

Let's be near

The atmosphere

PAIN: Agony and insight, it's all in the head

A BRAIN WIDER THAN THE SKY
A Migraine Diary
Author: Andrew Levy
Publisher: Simon & Schuster (289 pages)

Reviewer: Christine Montross (Washington Post)

It's no easy business to write about pain. Memoirs of illness and injury too frequently end up either as proud testimonies of endurance or self-indulgent tomes. Andrew Levy's beautiful memoir, A Brain Wider Than the Sky, is welcome relief.

A professor of English at Butler University, Levy is also an accomplished writer, who here turns his exacting gaze inward: He invites us to accompany him on a harrowing descent as he changes from a man who has suffered from occasional headaches into the victim of an unremitting, four-month-long, life-altering migraine.

Inevitably, when Levy is confronted with this disorienting and disabling pain, he is driven to wonder why he is afflicted. Happily for his readers, he does not ask, "Why me?" but rather, "Why any of us?" What follows is an affecting, readable account of the pain of migraine and the weird wonder of it. Levy seamlessly glides from the experience of his own suffering to broader neurological and historical realms, including a number of jaw-dropping anecdotes about migraine and its treatment.

Levy guides us through a range of theories regarding the causes of migraine, including Sigmund Freud's laughable hypothesis that his daughter's first menstruation gave him "a migraine from which I thought I would die." Levy also includes descriptions of patients who endured wacky and often violent attempts at treatment, such as the 17th-century intellectual Lady Anne Conway, who allowed her brother to cut open her head. Levy asserts that such a preposterous-sounding cure simply reflects the victim's desperation. More>>