Write the Ending
Red Lighting Bolt

Roth funny

I'm reading Philip Roth's The Counterlife and the other night when I read this line (the last one), I cackled.

The young people are full of despair.  The drugs are only despair.  Nobody wants to feel that good if they aren't in deep despair.

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