Melancholia

"Ich steh mit einem Fuß im Grabe"


(I am standing with one foot in the grave),

Saturday, December 5, 2020

A.A. Meeting with Charles R. Jackson

 


This is a speech that author Charles R. Jackson delivered at an AA meeting in Cleveland, Ohio in 1959. Jackson is best known for his ground-breaking novel "The Lost Weekend" which was made into an Oscar-winning film starring Ray Milland.








  



Tuesday, December 1, 2020

Henri Simon Thomassin: Allegory on Melancholy, with a woman kneeling towards the left holding a skull

 
  
Creative Commons from circa 1729–40, etching and engraving, dimensions of the sheet: 42 × 25.7 cm, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York City)

Allegory on Melancholy, with a woman kneeling towards the left holding a skull