"To be, or not to be, that is the question. Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles."
"Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio; a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy."
As an individual with bipolar disorder, and particularly more extreme depressive episodes, suicide has been a topic I have pondered substantially.
Maybe it's only fitting, then, that, just as Hamlet faced his own ideas about mortality to the skull of Yorick, and as David Foster Wallace wrote about suicide in his book "Infinite Jest", I can allow readers to see ideas about suicide also, alongside psychoses, hypomania, and plethora of other stuff.
In a similar vein, just as Yorick was a jester, I'm a comedian.
Also my name is Jesse.
There. That's the title of my blog explained. The book, Hamlet's reference to suicide, Yorick was a jester, and my name is Jesse. It's a four way pun.
It's also incredibly pretentious.
Pun-tentious.
- Jesse
