Mbdlevin@aol.com
Tue, 9 Nov 1999 01:08:36 EST
Richard Feaster writes:
<< It's not altogether surprising that he killed
himself in this manner since
he often had characters in his books jumping off of
boats (see THE SAILCLOTH
SHROUD, SCORPION REEF or DEAD CALM). He wrote with
great eloquence about
this, in fact, and seems to have been fascinated with
images of bodies
submerging into the crushing depths of the sea. Pretty
intense stuff,
especially when read with the knowledge of his own
suicide. >>
This method of suicide has at least two literary forebearers
that I can think of: (1) Hart Crane; (2) Martin Eden
(eponymous character, a stuggling then successful writer, in
a novel by Jack London).
Doug (now one of three, I think)
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