![]() Love? That’s not even an option… I’m not against all that happy shiny stuff, but you’re probably the first person to say that word to me in ten years. ![]() Suicide? What is that? Cowardice or an act of courage? A radical transformation, a cry for help, or self-martyrdom? An exit… a trap… a punishment… I want to… I can tell you why I’ll never kill myself… I’d struck up a conversation on the train…Ī friend of mine killed herself… She was a strong and successful woman. I went to St Petersburg to get a different story but came back with this one. This is the second of three extracts.Īlisa Z., advertising manager, 35 years old The resulting book, Second-Hand Time, is an oral history which tells through the words of ordinary people the end of what she, in her 2015 Nobel Prize lecture, called a “historical experiment”. ![]()
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