The Inventions of the Idiot

Book Excerpt: suicide. It is, in my judgment, the worst crime a man can commit, and I cannot but admire the remarkable discernment evinced by the Fates in making of it its own inevitable capital punishment. A man may commit murder and escape death, but in the commission of suicide he is sure of execution. Just as Virtue is its own reward, so is Suicide its own amercement.""Been reading the dictionary again?" asked the Poet."No, not exactly," said the Idiot, with a smile, "but--it's a kind o...