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Sociology > Depression |
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"monkeyhawk" |
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26 Mar 2006 11:33:31 PM |
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Dorothy Park on suicide... |
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Razors pain you;
Rivers are damp;
Acids stain you;
And drugs cause cramp.
Guns aren't lawful;
Nooses give;
Gas smells awful;
You might as well live.
I love Dorothy Parker.
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| User: "CyberDroog" |
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| Title: Re: Dorothy Park on suicide... |
27 Mar 2006 05:47:15 AM |
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I've always liked one of Robert Heinlein little ditties from Stranger in a
Strange Land. It is the poem that Jubal Harshaw quotes to his secretary
for The New Yorker magazine.
"One for the Road"
There's amnesia in a hang knot,
And comfort in the ax,
But the simple way of poison will make your nerves relax.
There's surcease in a gunshot,
And sleep that comes from racks,
But a handy draft of poison avoids the harshest tax.
You find rest upon the hot squat,
Or gas can give you pax,
But the closest corner chemist has peace in packaged stacks.
There's refuge in the church lot,
When you tire of facing facts,
And the smoothest route is poison prescribed by kindly quacks.
With an ugh! and a groan, and a kick of the heels,
Death comes quiet, or it comes with squeals-,
But the pleasantest place to find your end,
Is a cup of cheer from the hand of a friend.
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The prestige of government has undoubtedly been lowered considerably by
the Prohibition law. For nothing is more destructive of respect for the
government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be
enforced. It is an open secret that the dangerous increase of crime in this
country is closely connected with this.
- Albert Einstein, My First Impression of the U.S.A., 1921
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| User: "violet" |
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| Title: Re: Dorothy Park on suicide... |
27 Mar 2006 02:55:02 AM |
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monkeyhawk wrote:
Resume
Razors pain you;
...
You might as well live.
I love Dorothy Parker.
Ta for that, we need more poetry :-)
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| User: "Hexe" |
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| Title: Re: Dorothy Park on suicide... |
27 Mar 2006 02:37:10 AM |
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thank you for these. i only know her most famous:
men don't make passes
at women who wear glasses
candy is dandy
liquor's quicker
i'm gonna have to google her and learn more.
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:Hexe
:Thought for the journey:
Last night I fell asleep in a satellite dish. My dreams were broadcast all over the world. - Steven Wright
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| User: "monkeyhawk" |
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| Title: Re: Dorothy Park on suicide... |
27 Mar 2006 02:47:36 AM |
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"Hexe" <greywitche@yahoo.com> wrote
thank you for these. i only know her most famous:
men don't make passes
at women who wear glasses
candy is dandy
liquor's quicker
i'm gonna have to google her and learn more.
Actually, I think "Candy is dandy..." is Ogden Nash.
But I'd have to look it up.
Dorothy Parker is one of the all-time great depressives.
She was cursed by being born at both the absolute right, and the absolute
wrong, time.
She was, by nature, a liberated woman at a time when all social pressures
tried to make her conventional and subservient-to-men.
She provided feminine insight to a time that was just beginning to
appreciate a woman with a brain, a sense of irony, a sense of humor.
The Jennifer Jason Leigh flick, "Mrs. Parker and the mumble mumble...,"
hell, I can't remember the whole title; but it was a terrific performance --
gives you a perspective of Dorothy Parker's life. Rent it.
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