Discovering Auld Angst Syne: "Contemptuously I flung Seventeen aside; it had been rendered meaningless. From now on I would abandon magazines and instead read books like 'Death Be Not Proud,' in which someone with his entire life ahead of him suddenly dies tragically. 'The Bell Jar' was only a hop, skip and a jump away, along with the poetry of Anne Sexton and my own morbid, self-obsessed poems".
