Subject: RE: Grey Days
From: Malcolm Lawrence (Malcolm@wolfenet.com)
Date: Wed Apr 30 1997 - 14:23:28 GMT
>Is there anyone out there who believes Seymour loved Muriel much
>differently than he would a dog? More urgently: that his wife did not
drive
>him to suicide?
I don't believe anyone can be driven to suicide. I was talking with a
friend once after Cobain killed himself and I said "Suicide is NOT a
choice." Sensing I had assented with the morals of despair she immediately
became defensive and wanted to argue for a split second until she heard
what the actual words were that I had said and agreed. What I was trying to
say was "Suicide is NOT a choice one makes, one is driven to it," which in
retrospect I realize underlines the passive victimization of the situation,
yet she heard "Suicide is NOT an option," which is aggressively pro-life.
My words betrayed my thoughts, and in hindsight I realize how much I was
really trying to tell myself.
I just wonder how Seymour became such a passive victim of his life when in
Hapworth, for example, he was aggressively pro-life.
Malcs
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