LPPM MMV "A Divine Melancholia"

[Dave Monroe]

"It seemed she had this habit of picking up male
specimens wherever she went and bringing them back
with her and dropping them after a few weeks. [...]
But Irving Loon, she insisted, was different. He had
this brooding James Dean quality about him.
   "'He's been standing in the same corner all
evening,' she said. 'He hasn't spoken a word for two
days. [...] But it's a divine melancholia and it's
what I love about him.' 
   "Good grief, that was it.
   "Melancholia. Just by accident she had used that
word, the psychologist's term, instead of
'melancholy.' ...." (MMV, pp. 8-9)


James Dean

http://imdb.com/name/nm0000015/


"a divine melancholia"

Main Entry: mel·an·cho·lia 
Pronunciation: "me-l&n-'kO-lE-&
Function: noun
Etymology: New Latin, from Late Latin, melancholy
: a mental condition characterized by extreme
depression, bodily complaints, and often
hallucinations and delusions; especially : a
manic-depressive psychosis

http://m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=melancholia

"a divine melancholia" = "good grief" ...

Cf., e.g., ...

"'Go ahead, but don't expect me to ascend wearily out
of my Melancholia just so ev'rybody else can have
their own idea of a good time ...'" (M&D, p. 272)

And see, esp., ...

Burton, Robert.  The Anatomy of Melancholy.
   Ed. Holbrook Jackson.  New York: NYRB Books,
   2001 [1621].

http://www.nybooks.com/shop/product?product_id=2


		
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