Way to Go !

Horror of Horrors
Old Prof M has apparently asked the class to write a paragraph of about 150 words following all the norms of 'good writing' laid out by him. We are to read them aloud tomorrow, the first English class I'll be attending after a week.

The good news is that he has left the topic open, which allows me to make it as shocking as I like , and ensure that he never makes me read out anything again. Never Ever.

And so after much deliberation, sifting through the likes of ' Of Attendance and other Inanities ' and 'REM : Rapid English Massacre', I have settled upon ' Way to Go !' - a short compendium of bizarre celebrity suicides.

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Celebrities have a unique way of capturing public imagination, be it in life or in death. As cynics would have it,a fancy suicide is the ultimate publicity stunt. Let us consider the efforts of our ladies first. Poetess Sylvia Plath, always one for the unconventional, decided to discard the tried and tested methods of slashing a wrist or shooting a temple and instead put her head into a heated oven. Peggy Entwistle, an upcoming actress, jumped off the H of the Hollywood sign, exactly one day before she would have received an offer to star in a movie about a girl who commits suicide.If this appears much too trite, reflect on the celebrated Japanese author Mishima, who took his Samurai fanaticism a bit too far and sliced upon his intestines with a sword in front of his students. Since it is unlikely that you will ever be capable of rising to these high standards, you are whole-heartedly advised to not burnt out but to fade away with grace and a little dignity.

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You of course understand that I do not subscribe to this romanticization of unhappy lives, though it does appear to me that to be really creative, it is almost necessary that you take drugs or lead a wretched life.

That's just so sad.