When we were teenagers, we started reading things like Parker, Plath, Sexton & Bukowski. We wore black and listened to angst-rock and were drawn to all things mournful and creepy
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My favorite retort was from The Seagull: "I'm in mourning for my life."
It begins with a young woman (Masha) dressed in funereal black because, as she calmly tells the suitor (Semyon Semyonovich Medvedenko) who wonders why she always wears black "I'm in mourning for my life." Later on she elaborates on her depression with "I always feel as if I'd been born ages and ages ago; I just drag myself from one day to the next, like the hem of my skirt." (http://www.curtainup.com/)
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My favorite retort was from The Seagull: "I'm in mourning for my life."
It begins with a young woman (Masha) dressed in funereal black because, as she calmly tells the suitor (Semyon Semyonovich Medvedenko) who wonders why she always wears black "I'm in mourning for my life." Later on she elaborates on her depression with "I always feel as if I'd been born ages and ages ago; I just drag myself from one day to the next, like the hem of my skirt." (http://www.curtainup.com/)
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