M & D Deep Duck grieving

[Mark Kohut]

Mason attends 'hangings"..free association, mine: "postcards of the
hangings"--Dylan....pull of a melancholic temper under grief?..... See
Anatomy of Melancholy. Hamlet.

We are soon to see Mason's long grieving for his departed wife, and
here in the beginning we see Cherrycoke being unable to
detach---grief--from his friend Mason.

Humans grieve and it is a major theme. Mortality bonds even beyond Death.

"like a shade with a grievance" ..."[it is as] if he [Cherrycoke]
expected him to help him with something"...
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