tl;dr A woman is told her cancer is inoperable and hates that her responses will resemble other terminal patients, whether stoic or sullen. She uses a baroque d

tl;dr A woman is told her cancer is inoperable and hates that her responses will resemble other terminal patients, whether stoic or sullen. She uses a baroque description of the situation, initially. For example, she refers to her husband as 'the poet'. Not 'I said x to my husband, the poet', instead, she writes 'I said x to the poet'. It's eventually obvious it's her husband, but other aspects of the writing assume a given reader will reach her inference quickly, but without providing the foundation to do so. It's 4000 words about not having something original to say about dying. I've only read the first half; and, in that half, she succeeds in convincing me.