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[Anonymous No.14640873]

Was it a career move as suggest by Franzen?

[Anonymous No.14640891]

>>14640873
No. He had a complication with his meds and the comedown was too much. The Pale King was shaping up to be a step above IJ.

[Anonymous No.14640894]

>>14640873
Of course. You guys are still puzzling over this?

[Anonymous No.14640908]

>>14640873
No, it sounds a lot like he just had some form of chemical depression exacerbated by a history of drug use

Also did Franzen really say that? The guy spoke at his funeral

[Anonymous No.14640909]

>>14640873
Transparently so.
He killed himself to be cool, basically.
And it didn't work.
Sad if it wasn't so dumb.

[Anonymous No.14640922]

If a writer doesn't immediately kill himself after completing his magnum opun, I consider him dishonest and a phony. Would a man, having produced a true masterpiece, really want to continue on living an empty life of a decline?

[Anonymous No.14641012]

>>14640922
t.

[Anonymous No.14641115]

>>14640908
>To ignore, in his death, a component of what Franzen called "suicide as career move" is to see a person half-developed. Franzen puts it better in "Farther Away":

>In a sense the story of my friendship with him is simply that I loved a person who was mentally ill. The depressed person then killed himself, in a way calculated to inflict maximum pain on those he loved most, and we who loved him were left feeling angry and betrayed. Betrayed not merely by the failure of our investment of love but by the way in which his suicide took the person away from us and made him into a very public legend.

[Anonymous No.14641165]

>>14640873
I think he killed himself after coming to terms with being alone at older age with no sign of his anxiety to decrease.

His medicated depression was only a contributing factor to reaching that stage.

[Anonymous No.14641182]

>>14641115
>NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO YOU CANT JUST KILL YOURSELF THINK OF ****MY**** FEELINGS

[Anonymous No.14641217]

>>14641165
>MUH ANXIETY I'M SUCH A PROBLEMATIC GUY

[Anonymous No.14641257]

>>14640891
It's decidedly better already. The years of journalism did him good

[Anonymous No.14641262]

>>14641217
Well basically this

[Anonymous No.14641269]

>>14640873
The Professor is alive and well.

[Anonymous No.14641300]

>>14641165
Wasn’t he married?

[Anonymous No.14641393]

>>14641300
correct

[Anonymous No.14642416]

>>14640909
That’s not true

[Anonymous No.14642445]

>>14641182

Based response

[Anonymous No.14642461]

>>14641115
>hurr his suicide hurt me, he must have done it just to hurt me, I am angry at him for being so selfish as to blow his brains out, how can he be such an asshole, I wasted all that time being his friend
Why are normies so cold and ignorant towards the suicidal? The fact the phrase "suicide is selfish" even exists should be an eternal testament to the nearly uncrossable gulf of vapid self-centeredness that surrounds the normie.

[Anonymous No.14642544]

>>14641115
what an asshole

[Anonymous No.14642551]

>>14641115
fuck franzen

[Anonymous No.14642553]

>>14641269
based

[Anonymous No.14642561]

>>14641115
I have at different times come into possession of 3 of his different novels but never wanted to read any of them because of these ignorant comments. I already hate the guy.

[Anonymous No.14642567]

>>14642561
franzen always playing the redheaded stepchild, the man who could not even replicate DFW's comparatively modest gifts, the man who could not finish Moby Dick and claims reading The Recognitions was the hardest thing he has ever done, the equivalent to a full-time job

[Anonymous No.14642609]

>>14642461

My fave is when normies say that no one is to blame when someone commits suicide except the person who dunnit. All of a sudden the people who bullied, abused, traumatized, neglected the person etc. are absolved of all responsibility