Pynchon reference

[Bekah]

I'm currently reading "Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of  
Abraham Lincoln" by Doris Kearns Goodwin.    Imagine my surprise  
when,  on page 103,  discussing Lincoln's melancholic personality,  I  
happen upon a quote by OBA.

" ' Melancholy,' writes the modern novelist Thomas Pynchon, 'is a far  
richer and more complex ailment than simple depression.  Therei s a  
generaous amplitude of possibility, chances for productive behavior,  
even what may be identified as a sense of humor.' "

Source: (pg  776)
  " 'Melancholy ... a sense of humor':  Thomas Pynchon, introduction   
to 'The Teachings of Don B.: Satires, Parodies, Fables, Illustrated  
Stories, and Plays of Donald Bartholme,'  ed. Kim Kerzinger (New  
York: Turtle Bay Books, Random House, (1992), p. xviii. "

I guess Goodwin knows where to look?   - heh

Bekah