MDDM: melancholy, Mason, Lolita

[cathy ramirez]

--- Doug Millison <pynchonoid at yahoo.com> wrote:
> cathyramirez69 at yahoo.com:
> >Are you saying that any pre-20th century
> > study 
> > of melancholy can not be applied to HH? 
> 
> No.  I haven't seen it done yet, and wonder how
> applying Burton's work to Lolita might enrich a
> reading of M&D or another Pynchon work. I agree with
> you, that it's possible this exercise might yield
> interesting results, so go for it and report back if
> you wish.

So, all that stuff about ripping a label from a
worldview was just a bunch of nonsese. 
> 
> The claim that "Mason suffers from all the symptoms
> and causes of
> Melancholy that Burton describes"  remains
> hyperbolic.

Refute it. 

> (watch the url wrap, but you'll find quite a few
> "symptoms and causes" on Burton's list that don't
> apply very well to Mason's case -- some of them do,
> but not all of them.

I notice that you've slipped in that qualifier (very
well). 

Just pick one. Can you name one symptom or cause that
Burton describes that does not apply to Mason's
condition? 



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