Posted by Ritch on October 25, 2002, at 21:11:42
In reply to Re: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, posted by Dr. Bob on October 25, 2002, at 2:42:53
> > Singer's suicide was disturbing. Everybody identified/projected their own ideas in him. He never expressed his own thoughts and ideas to anybody but his friend in the hospital. He became a sort of pet to everybody around him.
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> Do you think that dynamic contributed to his suicide? If he'd expressed himself more, might he not have done that?
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> BobYes, he was always in a listening role. He listened through reading everyone's lips and could understand *their* conflicts. He was able to communicate with sign language, but always kept his "hands in his pockets". He did write short notes to people, but they were very brief. If he could have written more lengthy letters to others maybe they could have felt some genuine understanding of his own unique personal situation and he would have felt a need to relate the story of his experience of his friend's death to someone later on...
Mitch
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