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CowperKettle

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M.A.R.

08:31

@CowperKettle I'm sold

@Mitch The way adults behave, we do need re-education camps

Somewhere to crush their spirits and lower their self-confidence so they don't decide their 100-character memo is smarter than what doctors and NASA engineers say.

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Canned Man

12:38

@fev Thanks for the edit!

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SmokeDetector

14:24

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Canned Man

15:27

Would a question requesting suggestions and/or lists of important works within a topic be off-topic here?

Canned Man

15:41

It could be ‘What are some important non-academic works where suicide is a central topic’, further specified to be either written by English-speaking writers or that otherwise had a pronounced influence on English literature. E.g. John Donne’s Biathanatos or Goethe’s Die Leiden des jungen Werther which was highly influential on all European literature during its time.

Mitch

@CannedMan Do you mean literary topics?

@CannedMan probably not a good fit for ELU (too. opinionatd?)

Spring Awakening has -a- suicide (it's not central, but it is an important part of the work)

also German

and late 19thc so may be too late for you

The Bell Jar is about falling into severe mental health difficulties but the author died by suicide a month after publication so it has a lot of aura of suicide around the work.

Romeo and Juliet? OK that's not central, but it sure tops off the whole show.

Hamlet? Ophelia is not central but it's a big deal.

Google is telling me over and over again 'The Awakening' by Kate Chopin.

CowperKettle

16:01

Fully vaccinated folks are walking around thinking they’re 95 percent protected from the virus, but with the Delta variant raging across the country, that number is actually more like 50 percent, Topol says

@CannedMan You could ask on Literature Stack Exchange

Faheem Mitha

@CannedMan "The Little Prince" comes to mind. Though maybe that's French. Cheerful topic, BTW.

Mitch

16:52

@FaheemMitha What?

The Little Prince is basically a kid friendly suicide note?

jaw drops

CowperKettle

This Tennessee Republican Nearly Died From COVID. Now He’s Fighting Masks

Faheem Mitha

@Mitch There's a suicide theme, I think. But opinions might vary.

CowperKettle

17:16

Just sold my homing pigeon on Ebay for the 22nd time

Special tourist train that circles the Baikal lake.

CowperKettle