5.13.2009

the life

"By 31, he had developed hostile feelings toward his parents and the world. By his mid-30s, he had dropped off the study’s radar. Interviews with his friends after his early death revealed a life spent wandering, dating a potentially psychotic girlfriend, smoking a lot of dope and telling hilarious stories."


pretty much ideal.

op-ed in the times. end result:

"Even when we know something, it is hard to make it so. There is a complexity to human affairs before which science and analysis simply stands mute."