suicide inducing stuff

[davemarc]

> From: David Casseres <casseres at apple.com>
> To: Ted Samsel <tejas at infi.net>; Chris Stolz <chstolz at canuck.com>
> Cc: Pynchon list <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Subject: Re: sad tunes
> Date: Monday, January 13, 1997 1:37 PM
> 
> Ted Samsel sez
> 
> >Leave it to the Hungarians, but in the 20's or 30's, there was a popular
> >song over there called GLOOMY MONDAY that had them defenestrating they-
> >selves, jumpung off bridges, doing the Anna Karenina bit, usw.
> >
> >(I am not making this up... learned of this when I was a grad stoont in 
> >Ethnomusicology in the '70s).
> 
> Hungarians?  Over there???  They didn't teach you that "Gloomy Monday" 
> was a major hit right here in the USA, by Billie Holliday, and reputedly 
> caused a number of suicides?
> 
Then there's always Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther....

davemarc