crying and frying

[Diana York Blaine]

Well, since it fits two threads:  I hadn't seen the movie Mary Poppins
since childhood when a friend and I decided to watch it at the Rialto in
Pasadena.  I should add that we had dropped acid that afternoon. When the
little English tykes realized Mary was gone I went into complete hysterics
and had to be dragged out. FIVE-year-olds were staring at me in jaded
disgust. Don't know if you'd call that clarity, exactly, but it certainly
was intense....

I'm planning a seminar next term on death, mourning and suicide in
literature.  Someone mentioned Werther--any other suggestions?  I
thought maybe Hamlet and Gerald's Party, inter alia. I'm not limited by
genre, period or geography.  Diana