Paul: very strange when a person past the age of about 18 (unless they have discovered a horrible terminal condition) offs themselves.
_Oblivion_ is a great short story collection. It's a gathering of brilliantly bitter pills similar in tone to George Saunders' _In Persuasion Nation_.
Too many text virtuosi checking out of the globalist Curly-Howard-with-an-IPod world*.
Thought writers were supposed to leave us hanging, not the other way around. Bleak ironic quip .. yeah, he might have liked that. Or maybe not.**
EY ____ * Hey, Moe, it's a stylistic parody, nyuk-nyuk! **Proof that a MacArthur Genius Grant doesn't solve everything.
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