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As celebrity news goes, this is serious. Just heard it on the news. Writer/actor Spalding Gray, who has suffered from depression and is said to have attempted suicide last year, is the subject of a police search having been reported missing since last week.
If anyone here seen his one-man play, "Swimming to Cambodia," you know him as a brilliant, hyper-speed brain/mouth. Had a small role in The Killing Fields, and it's that experience that he exposes in Swimming to Cambodia.
This is an excerpt from his semi-autobiographical novel, "Impossible Vacation":
I remember standing in that second-story window and looking down, wondering if I really had the courage to jump and if I did would it kill me from such a small height. I think I figured I'd just break a leg or something and end up in a cast for the rest of the summer, and that would be much better than dying because of all the attention I'd get. But then I also realized that Mom wouldn't be able to give me any attention, because she was cracking up and needed all of it for herself.
If anybody finds him, please take him home. I'll miss him.
If anyone here seen his one-man play, "Swimming to Cambodia," you know him as a brilliant, hyper-speed brain/mouth. Had a small role in The Killing Fields, and it's that experience that he exposes in Swimming to Cambodia.
This is an excerpt from his semi-autobiographical novel, "Impossible Vacation":
I remember standing in that second-story window and looking down, wondering if I really had the courage to jump and if I did would it kill me from such a small height. I think I figured I'd just break a leg or something and end up in a cast for the rest of the summer, and that would be much better than dying because of all the attention I'd get. But then I also realized that Mom wouldn't be able to give me any attention, because she was cracking up and needed all of it for herself.
If anybody finds him, please take him home. I'll miss him.
