more Anne Rice wankery

[rm]

So obviously, Anne Rice is a popular topic over on Fandom Wank, and well, someone emailed her about the wank, and she replied.

http://www.journalfen.net/community/fandom_wank/515245.html?thread=41459373#t41459373

This is the Internet car crash I can't look away from.

Comments

[timiathan.livejournal.com]

That's really pretty sad. She's probably got a touch of schizophrenia -- there's always been that link between that and creativity, and paranoia is often the most recognizable symptom.

Did you notice, though, how so many people turned this into an issue of money? "All that wealth must be going to her head" etc. It's sad that that's what so many people think of first. This has nothing to do with money and everything to do with self-esteem and spotlight. But those three things are so tangled up in Americans' heads.

[timiathan.livejournal.com]

Crap that's a sad thing to say. I hope it's not prophetic.

You're right though, the only factor money really plays is that it gives people a lot bigger cushion to act out their craziness, and I wouldn't be surprised actually to find out that it did lead to a higher eventual suicide rate. Going longer without help.

At that group home I used to work at most people were on welfare, but there was one guy who was a former CEO at a huge company. We could never really figure out how he fell so far.