M &D stuff

[Mark Kohut]

We can use characterological contrasts from
Shakespeare's time to talk about Mason & Dixon.
The Choleric vs. the Sanguine....humors.

Regarding that line about Mason not seeing
how to act when he looked in a mirror...

Just learned:
It seems that the explicitly described melancholic
protagonist of Ben Johnson's EVERY MAN IN HIS
HUMOR has a famous-enough soliloquy about his melancholia
in front of his looking glass......
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