Word: melancholyã
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...author of two books of essays, 2001’s “Fraud” and 2006’s “Don’t Get Too Comfortable,” he’s approaching his next book about “pessimism and melancholy?? with—appropriately enough—dread. “I’m currently facing it with white-knuckle terror, and eventually the panic will fester into a boil that will goad me into action,” Rakoff says.To convey its tone, he cites a YouTube...
...point, a professorial mouse (Benjamin K. Glaser ’09) reads the tale of his life off of his tail.But the adaptation does struggle to create a sense of continuity between two books with very different tones—the first is jubilantly frenzied, the second whimsically melancholy??which are themselves episodic tableaus rather that unified narratives. Drake has elected to uphold this disparity between the two acts, which leads to an abrupt transition which lacks some resolution. Ultimately, however, it enriches the production, because the loyalty to Carroll’s original intent makes...
...Although Lincoln’s “melancholy?? was well known among his contemporaries, it has been largely ignored by historians...
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