Tag: Alienation

• Beauty queen finalist kills herself

  

  A finalist in the Miss Universe New Zealand pageant has killed herself at the age of 23. Amber-Lee Friis had her whole life ahead of her, but the demons of insecurity and self-doubt took over.

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  May 22, 2020

  SUICIDES

  Alienation, Amber-Lee Friis, Auckland NZ, Bullying, Miss Universe New Zealand, Samoan, Suicide, Youth suicides

• A Young Man’s Brief Dance of Death

  

  In the early hours of thet next morning, May 18, 1980, Ian Curtis wound a rope around his neck, hooked it up to a ceiling beam and hanged himself. He was 23.

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  May 18, 2020

  ROCK MUSICIAN SUICIDES

  18 May 1980, Alienation, Annik Honoré, ’Closer’, ’Stroszek’, ’The Idiot’, ’Touching from a Distance’, Bernard Sumner, Deborah Woodruff, desolation, Emptiness, Epilepsy, Ian Curtis, Iggy Pop, Joy Division, Post-punk rock, Suicide, Werner Herzog

• Book on alienation still an ‘Angry Young Man’ classic

  

  ‘The Outsider’ written by a 24-year-old Englishman in the Reading Room of the British Museum while he was living in a sleeping bag on London’s Hampstead Heath.

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  December 5, 2019

  ENGLISH LITERATURE

  Albert Camus, Alienation, Angry Young Men, Colin Wilson, Dostoyevsky, ENGLISH LITERATURE, Famous writers, Franz Kafka, Hemingway, Hermann Hesse, Jean-Paul Sartre, Nietzsche, Self-discovery, T.E. Lawrence, The Outsider