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Other than Charles Dickens's character, Sydney "it is a far far better rest that I go to than I have ever know" Carton, there is a general, social taboo against talk of our existence being an imposition upon us. It sounds negative, seems ungrateful and it sticks in the throat. Besides, we are engrained with the view that it is the other way round: life (the project of being "me") is a desirable possession and death is an outrageous imposition. "I Hope You Die Soon" is undeterred, firstly taking a momentous risk with its title and then forging on to defy our taboo. In "I Hope You Die Soon", Richard Sylvester eases us out of old conventions and into new vistas, but not as "us"!
New vistas: summer has come, hawthorn blossom can be detected upon the air and the hills are rolling out willingly before us in the sun. If you pick up "I Hope You Die Soon" in any sort of crisis, however, you can be sure that you are looking for something for yourself, some help perhaps. But awareness, of which this hawthorn blossom and those hills are emblematic, resists being just "for you" or "for me". Richard shows us that they are for no one and no purpose. And, as it were, how nevertheless to snap it on your digital camera!, upload it on your PC, make it "just for me", having outrageously more fun than ever with the "me" story!
Richard's book conveys his characteristic wit and irony. They glint through his writing. One thinks that he and Socrates might have had a great chat. Not just Socrates, however; the style of "I Hope You Die Soon" allows one to feel that one is having a really valuable chat with the author.
Alan Watt's book, "The Book : On The Taboo against Knowing who you are" relieved me of my life in the Seventies, but also left me striving in various unforeseen ways. Richard's Sylvester's book is its successor - relieving all striving in all its varieties.
