Wednesday, March 25, 2009

and this morning, confronted again by the archetype of the tortured artist

The family history of poets Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath took another tragic turn Monday when it was revealed that their son had committed suicide after battling depression.

Nicholas Hughes, whose mother asphyxiated herself in 1963 by putting her head in a gas oven at her London home while her two children slept in the next room, hanged himself at his home in Alaska, his sister Frieda told The Times newspaper...

complete story: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/books/03/23/plath.son.suicide/?iref=mpstoryview

i am infinitely troubled by this news on so many levels.

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