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[rich]

an oversimplification but that point after and before a
life-threatening experience for the first time

nothing like having it and seeing the many others who haven't
especially in children

i'm not sure despair of that kind could ever be accomidated

On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 4:44 PM, Lawrence Bryan <lebryan at speakeasy.net> wrote:
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> I don't know any more about Houllebecq then what I read in the URL you posted, so my first opinion is probably way off the mark. (At least I will entertain that as a distinct possibility.) It would seem that a lot of sensitive souls, as they enter adulthood, discover the emotion of sadness, of hopelessness, of deep despair and revel in those feelings. For many it is a phase which one outgrows with the help of one's children, but for some it is a lifelong addiction. How many of you, in your youth, spent hours alone thinking deep tragic thoughts, usually with the feelings of how incredibly astute you were to have discovered this dark secret, and with a faint feeling of pity for those poor unfortunates who had not and may never make this discovery, felt the chill bumps rising along your arms and into your neck?
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> I did. An amusing memory, now.
 Lawrence
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