Just finished Essays by Arthur Schopenhauer in which he tops off his always pessimistic and frequently misogynistic writings with a final essay that proves to be a no-holds-barred defense of suicide, against which all he could say that it was ultimately a futile effort in that while it ends an individual life, it in no way mitigates the universal Will to live.
Now on to something a bit more upbeat: The Baer Boys by Alan Hutcheson.
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