M & D Group Read: apply to Mason?

[Mark Kohut]

Susan Sontag on Walter Benjamin:

"Convinced that the will is weak, the melancholic may make extravagant
efforts to develop it. If these efforts are successful, the resulting
hypertrophy of will usually takes the form of a compulsive devotion to
work," she muses and practically self-analyzes in the title essay on
Benjamin.
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