Melancholy Enthusiast Gifts

Graduating with Melancholy...

Items from the Fall 2018 Melancholia Catalogue.

'Your work is so bleak, so despairing, your angst so wrenching. I've never read a party invitation quite like it before.'

"I've got those 'Don't worry about me, I'll just be here, all alone' blues."

"Events seem to be headed in the right direction. Unfortunately, it's not taking me with it."

"The artist-in-residence is struggling a bit, but other than that we're fine."

Neil Young

Lord Byron

"These brisk fall afternoons remind me of Chekhov, which reminds me of Putin, then Trump, the alt-right, facism, nuclear weapons ... let's go home."

'I hate my life.

'Dreams of how it might have been.'

Trilby - 'Malbrouck s'en va-t'en guerre'.

DOUR and TROUBADOUR

"Perhaps a dirge would lift your spirits?"

"I asked Bill to accompany this presentation with something in a haunting minor key."

"Our flavors of the day are Prodigal, Importune, and Mal de Siècle."

Books: Success stories & Sob stories.

"I never got a chance to say 'Shut up.' "

"Fall makes him sad."

Picasso's Blues Period

Tears

Death awaits the last leaf of Autumn with a rake.

Sad Songs.

"I like sad songs."

Where the boulevard of broken dreams crosses the avenue of broken appliances...

Tailpiece to E Dowson's 'The Pierrot of the Minute'

'Boy...usually it just gently weeps.'

"I'm full of an unspeakable sadness and it goes a little something like this..."

There's a tear in my beer.

Brenda Sanchez undergoes her daily moment of ‘Woe Is me.'

Looking miserable out there today...

A Winter's Day by Mary Lou Fleckner

"This drink? It's called loneliness. Care to join me?"

'We thought it fit his rather plaintive personality.'

Playing Sad Songs on the Piano.