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1. Suicide was so popular among Valentino's bereaved fans that even two years
after his death, women were still sending letters that read like this one: "How can
we go on in this life when you are in the hereafter?  My life is empty, a void, send
me a sign that you want me in heaven and I will join you there."  (Irving Shulman,
Valentino, Trident Press (Simon & Schuster), New York, 1967, pp. 25, 370.  See
also The New Encyclopaedia Britannica, Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc., Chicago,
1986, Vol. 12, p. 243.)
2. For the manner in which the Japanese viewed their superiority as a blessing from
their gods, see: Edwin O. Reischauer, The Japanese, The Belknap Press of
Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1981, pp. 217-219; W.G.
Beasley,  The Meiji Restoration, Stanford University Press, Stanford, California,
1972, p. 75.
3.  John Toland, The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire,
Random House, N.Y., 1970.
4. John Kenneth Galbraith, The Great Crash: 1929, Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1988
(originally published in 1954), pp. 128-30.
5. William Manchester, The Glory and the Dream: A Narrative History Of
America--1932-1972, p. 55.
6. Emile Durkheim, Suicide: A Study In Sociology, John A. Spaulding and George
Simpson, trans., The Free Press, New York, 1951, pp. 217, 241.  Walter T. Martin,
"Theories of Variation In the Suicide Rate," in Jack P. Gibbs, ed., Suicide,  pp.
76-77.  T.O. Beidelman, "Emile Durkheim," Academic American Encyclopedia, Vol.
6. p. 306.
7. Marcel Mauss, Sociology and Psychology: Essays By Marcel Mauss, trans. Ben
Brewster, Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1979, pp. 19-20.  These essays were
delivered in the 1920's.
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