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Originally Posted by Burninator
Agreed. I'll add another author to the that list. Chuck Palahniuk. The guy who wrote Fight Club. I've read a couple of his books, and Fight Club is easily the tamest. If he wasn't an established author his work would look very twisted, probably even more so than this guy.
That said, Chuck Palahnuik is probably a very balanced person in real life. So in regards to the shooter, it doesn't seem like there was enough to warrant serious suspension of violence.
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While I agree that in most cases writing about violence and acting out on those fantasies are two completely seperate issues, when you also take this into consideration:
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Originally Posted by RougeUnderoos
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/04/18/vat...sor/index.html
It's an article about the prof of that playwrighting class.
"Yet, in writing he could communicate. You've seen the plays. They're not good writing. But they are at least a form of communication. And in his responses to the other students' plays, he could be quite articulate. If writing is the only way you can communicate with the wider world, then I guess being an English major makes sense."
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it changes things. For a person who can communicate well with others, you get a better sense of their level of dimentia during normal conversation. For someone who cannot communicate with others very well, who isolates himself and has trouble fitting in, you often use the only tools you have available as the ones to help you cry for help. However, a person also needs to be receptive to that help, and it appears the killer in this case, wasn't. He was offered help. His prof spoke with him a number of times. However, you can't force a person to receive help. So he cried out for help, was offered it, and refused it. Hindsight is 20/20, and no one probably understood just the kind of help this kid needed, however, it's not like his work was ignored.