Fwd: M&D Deep Duck Ch. 3: Innocent merriment

[John Bailey]

I should have searched, cut and pasted instead of thumbing the
bookshelf and transcribing by hand. Missed that necessary phrase. Was
too distracted by the lines that surround the quoted para and kept
pulling me off by hook and by crook.


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From: jochen stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 9:25 PM
Subject: Re: M&D Deep Duck Ch. 3: Innocent merriment
To: John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com>


whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul;

2015-01-13 1:18 GMT+01:00 John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com>:
>
> "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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