M&D Deep Duck Ch. 3: Innocent merriment

[Keith Davis]

Hadn't thought of that, and it does make sense.


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> On Jan 12, 2015, at 7:18 PM, John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> "Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever I find
> myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up
> the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get
> such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to
> prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and
> methodically knocking people's hats off - then, I account it high time
> to get to sea as soon as I can. This is my substitute for pistol and
> ball."
> 
>> On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 11:02 AM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Makes sense to me.
>> 
>>> On Monday, January 12, 2015, Mark Wright <washoepete at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> He sees his own drop: a latent suicide steeling his nerve.
>>> 
>>>> On Monday, January 12, 2015, Monte Davis <montedavis49 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> 15.10: "Mason explains, though without his precise reason for it, that,
>>>> for the past Year or more, it has been his practice to attend the Friday
>>>> Hangings at that melancholy place ..." (Tyburn)
>>>> 
>>>> Anybody care to venture a "precise reason"? This first meeting is in 1760
>>>> or 1761, so his habit might date to his wife Rebekah's death in 1759
>>>> (although later we'll get reasons to think he had tended to the
>>>> Melancholick well before that). And yes, the Tyburn hangings were an
>>>> acknowledged Sight of London.
>>>> 
>>>> Is that enough to explain it? Mason is rather gentle, neither sadistic
>>>> nor vindictive; I for one don't see an obvious or direct connection between
>>>> mouning and a desire to watch excutions.
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