Rotation is an article written by Douglas Davis and appeared in the NY Press. He talks about the apparent suicide of writer Spalding Gray. He's been missing for almost three weeks now. Here's a bit:
I don’t know a soul who is not spayed with fear over the missing Spalding Gray, who disappeared on Sunday night, Jan. 11. Here and there he has been spotted, but still there is no definitive news.
Like many gifted creative people, Spalding was prone to long periods of depression. He tried to commit suicide in 2002. But his recent three months of delightful, moving monologues at P.S. 122 about the cause of that depression–a painful car crash in Ireland in 2001 that almost crushed his skull, hip and leg–were filled with laughter. The comedy built up over those months (the monologue changed whenever I saw it–four times) to the point where on the last night, in early December, the audience roared and roared and roared. At the end they all stood up, applauding.
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