If you folks want to feel total and complete hopelessness, read THE DEATH SHIP by B. Traven. Unrelenting!! Any glimmer of light that might flicker briefly soon reveals itself to be the proverbial dark cloud that is the actual nucleus of every silver lining.

Also Rudyard Kipling's THE LIGHT THAT FAILED. No practitioner of ANY art form should ever read it during his productive years. (A word to the wise...)

Love,

Art Thieme