Suicide Is Painless

Sat, 07 Aug 2010 00:00:00 +0000

“So I can’t talk you out of it, can I?” I asked Fred.

“No,” he said. “I can’t go on, Jim. It’s the honorable thing to do, you know. Die on your sword like a Roman, and all that.”

“More heroic to go on,” I said. “You’ve been depressed as long as I’ve known you – just a coincidence, I hope?”

Usual wry smile. “Longer than that.”

“You’ve fought your way through it. Yeah, you’ve grumbled all the way, but you’ve fought back. What’s happened now?”

Mark Gooley on Gromet's Plaza Archive