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Thread #130672   Message #3298151
Posted By: GUEST,Grishka
28-Jan-12 - 06:32 PM
Thread Name: 'Shiver My Timbers' (Tom Waits) - suicide?
Subject: RE: 'Shiver My Timbers' (Tom Waits) - suicide?
Altzheimer patients have their brains in the wind, but their hearts are usually more at home than in their younger days.

It is an old poetic stereotype to find oneself not at home in this world. Suicide is a metaphor by itself; those who write or sing about it, e.g. Goethe, tend die of old age. (Persons who threaten to kill themselves are not poets, and some actually do it.)