The Last Days of Kathy Acker

[colinprince]

http://penguinrandomhouse.ca/hazlitt/feature/last-days-kathy-acker

[michaelsbradley]

As I read this, the final days of the Little Flower came to mind:

Agonizing Death of St Therese of Lisieux:

http://jameslau88.com/agonizing_death_of_st_therese_of_lisie...

The two death-stories stand in stark relief to one another, but both made me ponderous to nearly the same extent and along nearly the same lines of thought.

[vex]

Ugh, homeopathy and people who hate modern medicine.

[pessimizer → vex]

She fooled herself into believing that the world was magical just because she was.

[jpt4 → pessimizer]

> just because she thought she was.