A. A. Milne set. Milne lived on the northern edge of the forest at Cotchford Farm, , and took his son walking there. E. H. Shepard drew on the landscapes of Ashdown Forest as inspiration for many of the illustrations he provided for the Pooh books. The adult Christopher Robin commented: "Pooh's Forest and Ashdown Forest are identical." Popular tourist locations at Ashdown Forest include: "Galleon's Lap", "The Enchanted Place", the "Heffalump Trap" and "Lone Pine", "Eeyore’s Sad and Gloomy Place", and the wooden "Pooh Bridge" where Pooh and Piglet invented Poohsticks. Not yet known as Pooh, he made his first appearance in
Illness as Metaphor but that all we have is metaphor—even in science—to understand the behavior of a disease that remains mysterious. The work was originally published as three long essays in the "New York Review of Books". Some of the more inflammatory language was slightly toned down for republication. For example, what Sontag originally called the "inimitable looniness" of Wilhelm Reich's language was softened to the "inimitable coherence". "Illness as Metaphor" has been regarded as one of Sontag's widest read and most celebrated works. "Kirkus Reviews" called it "a small, liberating book that could become the cancer patient's Common Sense." The literary critic