![]() ![]() In this view, nerves could be damaged by excessive use. The diagnosis of neurasthenia, also described as modern nervousness or what we might call anxiety, was thought to be caused by the overstimulation of modern life. By the late 19th century nerves acquired a new association. “To have nerve” has long suggested strength in English, a result of conflating nerves with tendons in early medicine. Now, almost two years later, speaking into my smartphone feels incomplete with punctuation. Instead, I wrote while walking, using speech-to-text software. I couldn’t stay still long enough to write on a computer. Months of sitting for Zoom calls and classes left me with excruciating sciatica in the summer of 2020. Can’t wait to see you exclamation point, I say. ![]() All my voicemail messages now include accidentally spoken punctuation. ![]()
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