The Last Days of Kathy Acker

Posted by colinprince on Wednesday August 12, 2015 @08:30PM
from the penguinrandomhouse.ca dept.

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

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Re:The Last Days of Kathy Acker by michaelsbradley on Thursday August 13, 2015 @10:47AM (#10054593)

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.

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Re:The Last Days of Kathy Acker by vex on Thursday August 13, 2015 @12:52AM (#10052319)

Ugh, homeopathy and people who hate modern medicine.

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Re:The Last Days of Kathy Acker by pessimizer on Thursday August 13, 2015 @12:58AM (#10052329)

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

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Re:The Last Days of Kathy Acker by jpt4 on Thursday August 13, 2015 @06:46AM (#10053257)

> just because she thought she was.

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