Blow Up...IV

[Bled Welder]

You're right, Michael.  He wanted it.  If he could have jammed his head
into the Sun, he would have.  What's in the Sun, do you know?  What are
those black spots?  It's almost like...hmm, fuck it.

I just had the strangest goddam experience.  And because I'm a lonely
--wait, goddam, I have *everything to say*.  I can actually say fucking
anything and everything.

What is going on here?

But on about what just happened to me....

Ah, remind me!  It's regarding dearth and dying...!

On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 6:56 PM, Michael Bailey <
michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:

>  Ian Livingston  wrote:
> > Wallace died of depression, not enlightenment.
> >
>
>
> mr wallace was on the weirdly named "nardil" (reminds me of Narda,
> Mandrake the Magician's love interest) for years and - according to
> the accounts i've read - it had stopped working for him.
>
> his psychiatrist sent him for ect -- i believe i've read that he
> requested it, though can't immediately cite anything besides some
> passages in ij that seem to show that this (shock therapy) was an idea
> that had appealed to him as a way to shut off unhappy thoughts...a
> radical fix...it's advertised as "a jump start for the endorphins" and
> is quite a profit center for its practitioners
>
> like Hemingway, he was unable to write after the treatment...like
> nearly everybody who undergoes it, he likely suffered memory loss,
> which would be especially rough for a writer...
>
> inability to write exacerbated his depression...
>
> had he lived longer, it's likely at least some of his abilities would
> have returned (see Roky Erickson)
>
>
> sure, check nami.org, they love ect -- but for a different viewpoint
> that cleaves  (imho) closer to the truth, please see ect.org
>
>
>
>
> --
> - where the bee sucks, there suck I
>
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