I've always been struck by the detail that he and his wife died in a double suicide, because he was terminally ill. This man who wrote so profoundly about brain

I've always been struck by the detail that he and his wife died in a double suicide, because he was terminally ill. This man who wrote so profoundly about brainwashing and thought control in the end persuaded a woman that since he wasn't going to live any longer, her life wasn't worth living, either. I only have the profoundest respect for Darkness at Noon. I read it in high school and it has stayed with me ever since. But it strikes me that sometimes you escape great trauma and sometimes you don't. A man who spent a lot of his time having a great public will forced upon him tried to escape that, but turned around and exerted the same abuse on other people in his private life. Sort of like the man who says, "I'll never be like my alcoholic father. He drank whiskey. I only drink beer."