It seemed like a damn futile business to keep on living. No more tutors - high s chool next September which would probably be a devilish bore, since one couldn't be as free and easy as one had been during brief snatches at the neighbourly Sl ater Avenue school...Oh hell! Why not slough off consciousness altogether?...The whole life of man was a mere cosmic second -so I couldn't be missing much. The method was the only trouble. I didn't like messy exits, and dignified ones were hard to find. Really good poisons were hard to get -those in my chemical laborat ory (I reestablished this institution in the basement of the new place) were cru de and painful. Bullets were spattery and unreliable. Hanging was ignominious. D aggers were messy unless one could arrange to open a wrist in a bowl of warm wat er -and even that had its drawbacks despite good Roman precedent. Falls from a c liff were positively vulgar in view of the probable state of the remains. Well w hat tempted me most was the warm, shallow reed-grown Barrington River down the e ast shore of the bay. I used to go there on my bicycle and look speculatively at it. (That summer I was always on my bicycle wishing to be away from home as muc h as possible since my abode reminded me of the home I had lost). How easy it wo uld be to wade among the bushes and lie face down in the warm water till oblivio n came. There would be a certain gurgling or choking unpleasantness at first, bu t it would soon be over. Then, the long, peaceful night of non-existence... What I had enjoyed from the mythical start of eternity till the 20th of August 1890. More and more I looked at the river on drowsy sun-golden summer afternoons. I l iked to think of the beauty of the sun and blue river and green shores and dista nt white steeple as enfolding me at the last -it would be as if the element of m ystical cosmic beauty were dissolving me, and yet certain elements -notably scie ntific curiosity and a sense of world drama- held me back. Much in the universe baffled me, yet I knew I could pry the answers out of books if I lived and studi ed longer. Things have learned to walk that ought to crawl.
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