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Sharon Broom, a spokesperson for ASHA, said last week that hotline callers can request they be mailed a free packet of information on herpes...
...side of Brattle Street. Pretend to try on a hat with garish flowers while admiring yourself in their grime-streaked mirrors. "Aw, don't I look cute?" When they're not looking, pluck off all of the flowers and stick them in your backpack. Mom'll love a surprise packet of cheap plastic flowers...
...Prozac Nation's press packet we encounter the following description of the author: "Witty, intelligent, and hip (nose ring, tatoo [sic]), Elizabeth Wurtzel is definitely not a Gen-X slacker." Beyond the silly assertion of nose rings and tattoos as indexes of hipness, this statement reveals what is meant as the book's selling point: that it's not just losers without jobs who are depressed, that the world is such a tough place that it would depress anyone, even a cool Harvard student. Hey, I buy it. I've been depressed too, and with many of the same symptoms...
...author was a miserable wreck, but she really lived. Throughout the book, Wurtzel mediates uncomfortably between depression as a political statement whose amelioration through pharmaceuticals is ignoble escapism, and depression as a chemical illness which should be treated medically. In an interview included in her book's press packet, she says that when she looks back on her days of depression. "I see myself as more pure, more raw, more instinctive, more in touch with all the evil of the world, more emotional and more attuned." She cites a New Yorker cartoon depicting Marx on Prozac declaring. "Sure! Capitalism...
...want to be an editorialist. I don't blame you. I wanted exactly the same thing when I was a first-year. I understand--ever since Harvard sent you that packet of student publications before your first weeks here, you've wanted to be a leader of campus opinion, to be admired by your ideological peers and to be reviled by your enemies. You've wanted to see your fellow citizens reading your work and nodding in agreement or fuming in outrage...