The Lessons Extracted from a Migraine
“I said I think that a guy who’s always interested in the condition of the world and changing it either has no problems of his own or refuses to face them,” said the novelist Henry Miller in a talking-head segment from Warren Beatty’s much-honored 1981 biopic of the Communist journalist John Reed, Reds. This was brought into sharp relief to me last week when, sidelined for nearly a full day by one of my blessedly infrequent migraines, I could not stir myself to care about anything—certainly not changing the world, or walking to the mailbox, or reading the book I had to finish for a review deadline later that week. All three seemed hopelessly Herculean when compared to the pain.
- ▪“I said I think that a guy who’s always interested in the condition of the world and changing it either has no problems of his own or refuses to face them,” said the novelist Henry Miller in a talking-head segment from Warren Beatty’s much-
- ▪This was brought into sharp relief to me last week when, sidelined for nearly a full day by one of my blessedly infrequent migraines, I could not stir myself to care about anything—certainly not changing the world, or walking to the mailbox
- ▪All three seemed hopelessly Herculean when compared to the pain.
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| Publication time | Sun, 26 Jul 2026 04:01:00 +0000 |
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