Pynchon reference

[Brock Vond]

Great catch...

On 2/13/09 5:36 PM, "Bekah" <Bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> 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
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