Literary Mystery: Suicide of famous art couple

There’s an interesting article in the LA Times on the suspected suicide-by-drowning of “rising art star” Jeremy Blake, who is thought to have wandered “into the ocean off New York’s Rockaway Beach — presumably to his death — a week after he discovered that his blogger-filmmaker girlfriend, Theresa Duncan, had taken her life in their East Village apartment.” The couple’s troubles apparently began in 2004, after they did an album cover for Beck, who is a Scientologist. Duncan and Blake became convinced that the Scientologists were stalking them, paranoia which seems to have led to Duncan’s suicide.

Of course, conspiracy theorists might say that a) Duncan really was being stalked and her death was not a suicide, and b)Blake didn’t commit suicide, but rather made himself disappear so that he wouldn’t meet with the same fate as his girlfriend. The more likely answer, of course, is that the couple truly was suffering from a terrible paranoia. Under her bio on her blog The Wit of the Staircase, Duncan posted these quotes from Gravity’s Rainbow:

“Paranoids are not paranoids (Proverb 5) because they’re paranoid, but because they keep putting themselves, fucking idiots, deliberately into paranoid situations.” 292

“You hide, they seek.” 262

On July 10, the day of her apparent suicide, Duncan quoted Reynolds Price on her blog:

A need to tell and hear stories is essential to the species Homo sapiens–second in necessity apparently after nourishment and before love and shelter. Millions survive without love or home, almost none in silence; the opposite of silence leads quickly to narrative, and the sound of story is the dominant sound of our lives, from the small accounts of our day’s events to the vast incommunicable constructs of psychopaths.”

Oddly, on July 8, just two days before her death, Duncan promised readers of her blog that she was “cooking up a new political essay” on Dick Cheney–doesn’t exactly sound like the words of someone who is about to off herself. But the post on July 9 was titled, “Goodnight, Children, We’re in the Arms of the Great Lover.”

I imagine this will go down as one of the famous mysteries of the art and literature world. Twenty years from now there will be folks claiming to have spotted Blake in a cafe in Budapest. Or maybe Blake himself will come forward in three or four years with a story about his greatest and most avant-garde work of art to date.

4 thoughts on “Literary Mystery: Suicide of famous art couple

  1. What they were talking about is being talked about by hundread across the globe. Look up the term gang stalking, what happened to them is happening to other people. The tactics are all the same.

    Look up the term Targeted Individuals. Theresa and Jeremy fit the description of what other people are talking about. Others are saying the exact same things they were about the stalking, monitoring, harassment, interfarence, sabotage, etc.

  2. Organized stalking has become a global problem. In the United States it is being orchestrated through a federally sanctioned program called Operation IMPACT, in which American communities are being turned into modern day versions of Adolph Hitler’s Brown Shirts.

    Such atrocities continue to occur under the Illuminati’s New World Order doctrine as America slides into an abyss of fascism.

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