A certain final exit
Posted in belles-lettres, miscellaneous, tagged arthur koestler, cynthia jefferies, death, dependance, love, sickness, suicide, suicide-pact, writer on March 3, 2008 | No Comments »
Twenty five years ago on this day, Cynthia Jefferies looked lovingly at her husband Arthur Koestler.
He was sick and mentally decayed - the brilliant mind that wrote “Darkness at noon” was all but vanquished by Parkinson’s, the body was fighting a losing battle with leukamia. Yet, she knew that the essence of the man hadn’t yet gone away. And though [...]
