Then, using a Rolleiflex bought for £50 with borrowed money, she took her photograph of a cow's eye and in that eye she discovered herself.
She also used her feed, @valtrier, to rail at her employers for sexism when she discovered herself on the cover of Paris Match, described as Hollande's "charming asset".
Deserted by him and nearly everybody else, bed-bound in a garret, she discovers in herself a sense of humour.
In "Freak", she discovers she herself is meteor-infected, with an unknown ability, and begins to worry that she is a "time bomb" heading towards insanity.
She is trying to find out who she is, and discover herself.
"And in the sunshine outside this Spanish church, time becomes telescoped for her and she discovers things about herself as memories of school, of her first kiss, and other events in her life whoosh past.
She discovers things about herself that will surprise people".
"Again, it's weird that she's going through this now at 32, but it's like she's kind of discovered herself in this last year in that she's really improved her game, improved that median game," Navratilova said.
In the seventies and eighties, Sontag says, she discovered in herself a need for intensity, as opposed to the deep cool, the control, of formalism.
"Simply by discovering herself, she has ultimate strength.
