Mike's Pith & Wind - Depression
This doesn’t relate to Hess specifically, but his bizarre suicide (another media tautology like ‘freak accident’?) has had me considering the ‘Life, the Universe and Everything’ equation on a daily basis ever since. (And it was bizarre, anyway).
When I first heard the news I was groping around pathetically in the dark solitude of my own threadbare existence - as usual. Trying to assimilate Hess’ final obscene gesture, I wondered if the little jester (hah!) had been simply overwhelmed by intimations of his own mortality. I just saw an interview with a fit-looking seventy-year old Michael Caine, and he had some very positive things to say about getting older, so while getting depressed about it all is understandable, it’s not the end of the world.
Mind you, that’s easy to say when you’re not depressed. While I have suffered from the odd bout of

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Depression - (cont.)
depression, and the incident I’m about to describe cannot be compared to yer actual (clinical) depression, I once had an anxiety attack that landed me briefly in hospital, but which changed my attitude in a positive way.
It was in the Ariel (mark ii) days, (’74 – ’75?), just before we were due to leave for the UK for the first time. I was sitting on the stage door read more