M &B D Duck Read. "postcards of the hanging"--Dylan

[Mark Kohut]

Mason attends 'hangings".."postcards of the hangings"--Dylan....pull of
a melancholic temper under grief?
 See Anatomy of Melancholy. Hamlet.
Grief, real human 'depression", which used to be referred to
in the 20th Century as a "fear of life"...or being '"half in love with
easeful death"--Keats.
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