Biography of X

by Catherine Lacey

That night I concluded that the problem with throwing myself over a cliff was that I didn’t want to kill myself—or rather, I couldn’t kill myself, as I was already dead. We never spoke of it again.

I’ve come to a better understanding of my overlapping significance and insignificance in her life.

I later learned that Bree was referring to a period in early 1957, when the ST deemed it lawful for a stoning to be undertaken by the public as long as twenty men could agree a crime had occurred.

“Rumor and hearsay are far more effective tools for advancing a nascent reputation than plastering one’s unwanted name all over the place,” X wrote in a journal years later.†

religious books, in his opinion, were the only ones that merited burning.