Bestseller by Beka Adamashvili

Author:Beka Adamashvili
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Dedalus
Published: 2023-01-31T00:00:00+00:00

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19 The day of one’s death is the equivalent of one’s birthday in Hell, and the dead celebrate it as the day of their otherworldly birth (erudite A/N).

20 Here the Author wants to remind himself that the black box – a flight recorder in an aircraft – is actually orange in colour.

IX

The Anonymous Suicide Club

Our life begins banally, as a rule: we are born, and once born, grow. In other words, we are all products of our childhood and head along the roads that we take or, more often, are forced to take. Then we live or exist until it comes to the full stop which then transforms (or we transform it after our own free will) into a dash between two dates…

…The Anonymous Suicide Club in Literary Hell was as trendy as, for instance, senseless Hashtags or taking pictures of illusory kisses at the Great Sphinx of Giza. The club members were the writers who had committed suicide secretly, without warning the world, and their death was considered to be natural. The club was chaired by Albert Camus who avoided strangers like the plague. Therefore, the only condition for those who wanted to join was to be anonymous suicides. Club members gathered on Sundays, when the rest of the writers had a day off and rested from their punishment. On this day, some slept like the dead, and some others were referred to as ‘lazybones’ for their laziness. However, the members of the club were far from lazy, and on Sundays they worked till dead of night to develop their club further.

“We live to die,” Camus would repeat the club slogan lifelessly. “It is absurd to start reading a book whose end you know in advance, absurd! What is our life? Only templates in the biography that need to be completed gradually in order to grow old and die some day, or to die so as not to grow old. How boring! You plan a car accident, commit suicide, and they interpret it primitively: Ironically, the writer Albert Camus, who was an absurdist philosopher and wrote about the absurdity21 …blah blah blah…”

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry was a club member with considerable experience. He had joined it the moment he followed in his character’s footsteps and to commit suicide, he stopped controlling the plane in the air…

…For that he was now constantly floating around the club, having no other punishment or anything else to do. This man has such a kind soul that it will suffer witnessing the sufferings of others, HE had decided in this way, it seemed.

The suicides gathered in the club, talked about their concerns and thus calmed their slain selves. Occasionally they even discussed some issues, such as, for instance, ‘Suicide as a Mainstream,’ the presenter of which was going to be the very Antoine de Saint-Exupéry that day. The title of the presentation was chosen very successfully. Firstly, because any topic in the title of which the word “mainstream” is used creates an illusion

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