tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9444317.post4430673337044371805..comments2024-03-10T08:48:34.026+00:00Comments on Nemeton: the art of suicideYewtreehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02028699564003381058noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9444317.post-45812636525674487112008-08-05T08:27:00.000+00:002008-08-05T08:27:00.000+00:00I do occasionally find myself agreeing with Cheste...I do occasionally find myself agreeing with Chesterton... and on this occasion he is absolutely right.Yewtreehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02028699564003381058noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9444317.post-4026042802043611902008-08-05T03:16:00.000+00:002008-08-05T03:16:00.000+00:00Wasn't it Keats who also wrote about being half in...Wasn't it Keats who also wrote about being half in love with easeful death?<BR/><BR/>I too have found the cultural aspects of suicide fascinating, but also think of the heartbreak for those left behind, so I tend to agree with Chesterton when he says:<BR/><BR/>"Under the lengthening shadow of Ibsen, an argument arose whether it was not a very nice thing to murder <BR/>one's self. Grave moderns told us that we must not even say "poor fellow," of a man who had blown his brains out, since he was an enviable person, and had only blown them out because of their exceptional excellence. Mr. William Archer even suggested that in the golden age there would be penny-in-the-slot machines, by which a man could kill himself for a penny. In all this I found myself <BR/>utterly hostile to many who called themselves liberal and humane. Not only is suicide a sin, it is <I>the </I> sin. It is the ultimate and absolute evil, the refusal to take an interest in existence; the refusal to take the oath of loyalty to life. The man who kills a man, kills a man. The man who kills himself, kills all men; as far as he is concerned he wipes out the world. His act is worse (symbolically considered) than any rape or dynamite outrage. For it destroys all buildings: it insults all women. The thief is satisfied with diamonds; but the suicide is not: that is his crime. He cannot be bribed, even by the blazing stones of the Celestial City. The thief compliments the things he steals, if not the owner of them. But the suicide insults everything on earth by not stealing it. He defiles every flower by refusing to live for its sake. There is not a tiny creature in the cosmos at whom his death is not a sneer."Steve Hayeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11283123400540587033noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9444317.post-66159693202546720562008-08-03T14:06:00.000+00:002008-08-03T14:06:00.000+00:00Aww thanks! That means a lot to me :)Aww thanks! That means a lot to me :)Yewtreehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02028699564003381058noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9444317.post-77651430965742385442008-08-03T13:50:00.000+00:002008-08-03T13:50:00.000+00:00Good! You write so well.Good! You write so well.Bohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10333815636018847583noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9444317.post-41554814147263397852008-08-03T13:48:00.000+00:002008-08-03T13:48:00.000+00:00Glad you enjoyed it - inspired by both your blog a...Glad you enjoyed it - inspired by both your blog and the Silver Eel's, I decided to write more about art and literature.Yewtreehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02028699564003381058noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9444317.post-25342010350697193072008-08-03T09:02:00.000+00:002008-08-03T09:02:00.000+00:00Touched with Fire is a great book.I enjoyed this p...Touched with Fire is a great book.<BR/>I enjoyed this post a lot, Yvonne! Thanks!xBohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10333815636018847583noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9444317.post-80462274128258358112008-07-29T08:44:00.000+00:002008-07-29T08:44:00.000+00:00Yes, someone once said that we create art out of o...Yes, someone once said that we create art out of our own imbalance.Yewtreehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02028699564003381058noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9444317.post-36808560496890626952008-07-28T22:09:00.000+00:002008-07-28T22:09:00.000+00:00Kay Redfield Jamison's Touched With Fire alleges a...Kay Redfield Jamison's <I>Touched With Fire</I> alleges a strong correlation between manic depression/bipolar disorder and artistic achievement. The flip side is that the same impulse which drives you to create art has a high chance of killing you through suicide.The Silver Eelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03615661656637047142noreply@blogger.com