In an essay on weightlifting, Kathy Acker describes the process of gradually building muscle as something that forces a confrontation with the limits of the body, with chaos, with my own failure or a form of death.What she describes would not be recognised by the unnamed protagonist of Anna Metcalfe's Chrysalis, who takes up bodybuilding as a means of asserting control.
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