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Word: iwishiweredead (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1972-1972
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Alvarez's closing account of his own suicide attempt serves little purpose, beyond proving that he, too, is a member of the club. He recalls how his parents used to talk of putting their heads in the oven and adds that for years he went around repeating "Iwishiweredead" to himself. But why? And how did he feel as the final, slow, nightmarish slide toward darkness took hold of him in his 31st year? Did he do anything so prosaic as hide the pills in those spare moments of common sense when he wondered, as he must have wondered, what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Taste of Hemlock | 6/12/1972 | See Source »

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