![]() The three elements of this nexus - the voiced eloquence, the fiercely focused desire, and the prospect of nothingness - constitute three compass points of Disch’s art. Hansen’s summation), but an articulated yearning for nonexistence. What is remarkable about this scene is not the defense of suicide (which does not take place in the text - the book ends with Mrs. I checked them in your little book.” She has indeed given reasons why her life is no longer worth living, with disconcerting thoroughness, and makes clear that if her application is turned down, she will appeal. “They’re all good reasons, every one of them. ![]() “I’ve made sense, haven’t I? I’ve been rational?” she asks her unseen auditor, a civil servant taking an application. Hansen, has finished explaining why she should have the right to die. ![]() Disch’s novel 334, the family matriarch, Mrs. ![]()
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