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Article #903Re: painless for whom?
From: Matthew P. Wiener
Date: Sun, 23 Mar 1986 23:56
Date: Sun, 23 Mar 1986 23:56
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In article <12526@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> gsmith@brahms.UUCP (Gene Ward Smith) writes: > Was there "only one way out" for Yukio >Mishima? Is not the suicide of Mishima the product of this Japanese >societal sickness, Picking Yukio Mishima as an example of your point is extremely poor, Gene. Writers and artists in general seem to have a higher suicide rate than normal is the impression I have. Nobody would say the suicide of Hemingway is the product of American societal sickness, but pick a Japanese and pow! you've analyzed the reasons right there. Perhaps the fact that Kawabata(*) offed himself too, at about the same time, left an extra strong impression. But Oe is still going strong. And I recall Bankei died naturally. (*)my memory is failing here: I mean the author of _The Snow Country_. ucbvax!brahms!weemba Matthew P Wiener/UCB Math Dept/Berkeley CA 94720
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!ucbvax!brahms!weemba From: weemba@brahms.BERKELEY.EDU (Matthew P. Wiener) Newsgroups: net.suicide Subject: Re: painless for whom? Message-ID: <12607@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> Date: Sun, 23-Mar-86 18:56:31 EST Article-I.D.: ucbvax.12607 Posted: Sun Mar 23 18:56:31 1986 Date-Received: Tue, 25-Mar-86 03:44:00 EST References: <5121@alice.uUCp> <12526@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> Sender: usenet@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: weemba@brahms.UUCP (Matthew P. Wiener) Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 18