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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...than he did: kick and stroke for 16 hours a day and hope. What Robert Jackson did not know or would not allow himself to recognize was the force that was dragging him down, the thing that had changed his natural blackness into the perfect imprisonment of a diving bell, and drowned all his hopes for himself, if not yet those he held for his family...
...place on it reserved for him. Although at the time Jackson did not have the highly developed comprehension he would later develop of who and what these forces were or how they enacted their terminal gravity; he did have a presentiment of the closing presence of a diving bell with his number, if not his name, on it. He knew that the life of the diving bell and the treadmill was not what he wanted for himself, but he did not know how best to escape it. He knew that if he were to escape or perhaps merely survive...
Cornell had the definite edge in the first half, but Harvard gained the lead on a corner kick by Russ Bell in the second period. Wilmot headed the cross to Adedeji who hit the inside of the right goal post with another head shot...
...came too late. Sylvia was the winner of a lottery she had only perfunctorily entered. Her most ambitious attempt at suicide was at nineteen; she swallowed fifty sleeping pills and hid in the back of a cellar, an act whose authenticity she patronizes and flaunts in The Bell Jar (1971). Her two later attempts wind down with less conviction, but sadly, with greater efficacy. While she was still living with her husband. Ted Hughes, and her two children in Devon, England, she drove off the road, on purpose...
...Bell Jar, Plath