Babette's Gift June 1997

JUNE 1997
T H E RAVEN C H R O N I C L E S

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`Why Live?`

June 1997

"Dorothy Parker in her poem Resume said: "You might as well live." Boris Pasternak in Doctor Zhivago said "To live life to the end is not a childish task." So, we ask you, "why live?" A simple question.

Carol Weber writes how death would be relief if only it wasn't messy and difficult and she wasn't too lazy in Why Live!?

Paul Hunter asks "what kind of living does the artist get to forego or opt for?" with his poem "When the Bough Breaks."

Matt Briggs writes about the suicide of his Uncle Fred, a self described street poet in "Elegy for Seventeen Years Gone Suicide."

Sharon McKenna writes about a character, who, "Like a lot of people before me, I've figured out why to live just in time to die."

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© The Raven Chronicles 1997

JUNE 1997		T H E RAVEN C H R O N I C L E S

`contents`		`Why Live?` June 1997 "Dorothy Parker in her poem Resume said: "You might as well live." Boris Pasternak in Doctor Zhivago said "To live life to the end is not a childish task." So, we ask you, "why live?" A simple question. Carol Weber writes how death would be relief if only it wasn't messy and difficult and she wasn't too lazy in Why Live!? Paul Hunter asks "what kind of living does the artist get to forego or opt for?" with his poem "When the Bough Breaks." Matt Briggs writes about the suicide of his Uncle Fred, a self described street poet in "Elegy for Seventeen Years Gone Suicide." Sharon McKenna writes about a character, who, "Like a lot of people before me, I've figured out why to live just in time to die." Submit to Babette's Gift, Find out Next Month's Theme.
		© The Raven Chronicles 1997