concept
Fames (hunger, Latin)
Fames
also: голод (лат.)
The Latin clinical term for hunger/starvation. In "Oysters" the starving boy imagines a doctor would have to write this word on his hospital chart, since his condition -- ordinary childhood hunger -- appears in no medical textbook.
Reading notes
- Oysters §8 Fames -- hunger (Latin)
The Latin clinical term for hunger/starvation. The boy imagines a doctor would have to write it on his hospital chart, since his suffering -- ordinary childhood starvation, no disease at all -- has no place in a medical textbook.