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"There is one aspect of the novel that I have had personal involvement with, in a way. A recurrent event in this novel is human bodies being unalterably changed, including mutilation, amputation, replacement of body parts with prosthetics, destruction and remaking, etc. I am now retired, but I worked for decades as an emergency physician. In the ER, physical injury to the body, 'trauma', is a common problem. I've seen and treated a great many patients with trauma, have thought about it a lot. Trauma has an emotional effect on individuals, beyond the aspects of physical injury and pain. That emotional effect is often out of proportion with the injury. I suspect this is is related to our inner image of the 'self'. We conceive our selves to be defined in part by our physical body as we normally experience it. Injury to the body represents not just pain, disfigurement or disability, but a damage to our image of our self on a metaphysical or ontologic level. This profound unease with physical injury is something with immense emotional resonance in many people, and something I want to tap into.
At the same time, body change of a different sort can mean growth. Throughout childhood and adolescence, our bodies are constantly changing as we grow, constantly being destroyed and remade, and that change is necessary if we are to become adults. But even this positive change causes uneasiness. The distress of adolescents with the changes in their bodies is well-recognized.
In Half-Witch, body change, destruction and remaking, represents... many things, which I will let the reader figure out on their own.”
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