He began writing poetry and plays. Through his writing, he appeared to develop the social conscience that his psychologist had thought he lacked. In 2021, I asked Friedmann, who was then awaiting trial for his plot at the Nashville jail, how he’d arrived at writing while incarcerated. “It’s more that writing arrived at me, as a matter of necessity,” he wrote. He had to expose the wrongs he saw around him. “I write primarily to inform, under the quaint notion that facts and accuracy matter, and to persuade. I often fail.” Nevertheless, writing gave him purpose, and, as he told me, “I’ve found that people remain hopeful so long as they have purpose.” It was also a way to control his anger. “We must all live with our faults, mistakes, poor decisions, cruelties great and small,” he wrote. “Those of us who can’t, ultimately don’t”—a reference to his suicide attempts. “I eventually came to terms with my own heart of darkness, and learned to live with it. The human condition is inherently dark, I think; to live is to suffer, due both to our actions and our inactions. Not to be too maudlin about it, though—without suffering, how would we know joy?”
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