Lincoln's look at that moment-the classic image of gloom-was familiar to everyone who knew him well. Such spells were just one thread in a curious fabric of behavior and thought that his friends called his "melancholy." He often wept in public and recited maudlin poetry. He told jokes and stories at odd times-he needed the laughs, he said, for his
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