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Thanks for that, Angus. My stock in trade is funereal, melancholy, mournful, sad, sorrowful, doleful and threnodial. It's the threnodial aspect that sets me apart from the overwhelming and falsely optimistic condition of the standard-issue American. As an Englishman, you spotted that immediately.

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An elegiac piece on the nature of what's meaningful (or not) in the grander scheme of things. I enjoyed your reflections, Jim, even with the underlying cause for gloom. "My hope is that we can, as a species, resist the undertow of trivia long enough to change our consumerist lives before all chances are foreclosed." Let's hope.

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