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Dramatis Personae

Please note that characters are added as they reveal themselves and become part of the story. 

The Melancholy Korean is a writer and former derivatives trader living in New York.  He loves Dante, James Joyce and Flaubert.  He loves Henry James, Anton Chekhov, Edith Wharton, Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, Cavafy, Ezra Pound, Nabokov, Leopardi, Chesterton, Hazlitt, De Quincey, Capote, Anthony Powell.  He knows Greek, Latin, and Italian.  He has studied French, German, Japanese, Sanskrit, and Hebrew, but of these languages, he remembers only, "avez-vous un cendrier?"  Yes, he smokes.  No, he doesn't know Korean.

Leon Badges is a painter, illustrator, draftsman, and cartoonist.  A visual artist extraordinaire, lover of women, and all-around madman, he is Melancholy's oldest friend.  They met in fourth grade and have been accomplices ever since.

Felicity

Barbara, Felicity's Mother

Harry Best

Prune

Dr. Ken Coffin

Broker Bill and his wife Kate

Nicky, the Greek

Blue Stocking

Rev Hezekiah Bartholomew Smith

Kitty

Marco

The Critic

Sybil

Schedule

Melancholy takes approximately 16 weeks of vacation each year.

Vacation Status:  at work, in New York.

Friends
Full Serial Archive
Copybook Archive
Fashion Diary Archive
Comments Archive
Reading List Archive

I cannot live without books.
--Jefferson

Saturday
05Jul

July 2008

DateSaturday, July 5, 2008 at 07:02AM

Peregrine Worsthorne, In Defense of Aristocracy

Ferdinand Mount, Cold Cream: My Early Life and Other Mistakes

Rick Perlstein, Nixonland

Bernard M. Baruch, Baruch: My Own Story

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Friday
13Jun

June 2008

DateFriday, June 13, 2008 at 06:00AM

John Henry Newman, Parochial and Plain Sermons, Volume 1

H. I. Marrou, A History of Education in Antiquity

William Hazlitt, The Spirit of the Age

Suetonius, Divus Augustus

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Sunday
01Jun

June 2008

DateSunday, June 1, 2008 at 09:19AM
Yuki Johnson, Fundamentals of Japanese Grammar

Seiichi Makino and Michio Tsutsui, A Dictionary of Basic Japanese Grammar

Tina Brown, The Diana Chronicles

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Saturday
24May

May 2008

DateSaturday, May 24, 2008 at 05:50AM
Reinhold Niebuhr, The Irony of American History

Reinhold Niebuhr, Leaves from the Notebook of a Tamed Cynic

Edwin Lefèvre, Reminiscences of a Stock Operator

Martin Gardner, Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science

Rob Riemen, Nobility of Spirit: A Forgotten Ideal

Charles Darwin Adams, Demosthenes and His Influence

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Thursday
08May

May 2008

DateThursday, May 8, 2008 at 03:23PM

Hyman Minsky, Stabilizing an Unstable Economy

Milton Friedman and Anna Jacobson Schwartz, A Monetary History of the United States, 1867-1960

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Wednesday
07May

May 2008

DateWednesday, May 7, 2008 at 05:10PM

George Soros, The New Paradigm for Financial Markets

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Saturday
03May

May 2008

DateSaturday, May 3, 2008 at 11:51AM

G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

John Henry Newman, An Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent

Karl Popper, The Logic of Scientific Discovery

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