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Still, after only a few face-to-face meetings, they became engaged during Easter 1914. Almost immediately Kafka's letters began to carry complaints of headaches and increasing insomnia. By July the engagement was over...
...some forty years I have not experienced any kind of bodily pain. I have had no colds, no headaches, no sickness, no insomnia, and if I ever take an aspirin tablet, it will be the first one; nothing to see a doctor about. I am the mother knows best." --From a profile of Maurice Kramer...
...absurdity at the end, four more lives are lived as lies. Anna deludes herself with a memory of a once happy marriage; Andreas, the humanitarian, is incapable of communicating with anybody; Elis, the photographer, has catalogued every twisted emotion registered on the human face; his wife is locked in insomnia. Intermittently Bergman breaks the narrative as the actors digress on the parts they play -- the work of the artist carries its own stamp of absurdity. Brattle...
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Widely regarded as an unreconstructed hypochondriac, he had headaches, cramps, insomnia and a nervous stomach from worrying-largely about his headaches, cramps, insomnia and stomach. Though some of his ailments, such as slipped discs, bone chips, blood clots, pulled muscles and malaria, were undoubtedly for real, Pirate fans came to expect and even revel in the complaints of "Mr. Aches and Pains." It was almost axiomatic that the worse Roberto said he felt, the better he played. "If Clemente can walk," the New York Mets' Tommy Agee said before the 1972 season, "he can hit." Hit he did, registering...