"Humor and Personality" Topic
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| Tango01 | 05 Jul 2018 9:09 p.m. PST |
""His world wide reputation for telling anecdotes – and telling them so well," recalled friend Joshua Speed "was in my judgement necessary to his very existence." Rather than indulgence in drinking, dice or cards, Mr. Lincoln "sought relaxation in anecdotes."1 Humor was an integral part of the way in which Mr. Lincoln created and cemented friendships. "When he first came among us his wit & humor boiled over," recalled James Matheny of Mr. Lincoln's arrival in the Springfield area. John McNamar, a rival for the affections of Anne Rutledge, later said his jokes were as "plenty as Blackberries."2 Benjamin Thomas wrote about the impact that humor had one Mr. Lincoln's fellow attorneys on the circuit: "Judge Davis sometimes stopped court to listen to his yarns. ‘O Lord, wasn't he funny,' exclaimed Usher F. Linder, himself a noted humorist. ‘Any remark, any incident brought from him an appropriate tale.' ‘In our walks about the little towns where courts were held,' said Whitney, ‘he saw ludicrous elements in everything, and could either narrate some story from his storehouse of jokes, or else he could improvise one….In anything and everything Lincoln saw some ludicrous incident.'"3 Mr. Lincoln liked to recall Linder's advice to a client during a break in his hog stealing trial. Linder suggested that the Illinois client might want to get a drink – and suggested that drinking water was better in Tennessee…."
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| donlowry | 06 Jul 2018 8:50 a.m. PST |
I think humor was Lincoln's defense against depression. |
| Tango01 | 07 Jul 2018 12:14 p.m. PST |
He was depressed?…it was a medical condition?… Amicalement
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Stew art  | 11 Jul 2018 10:26 a.m. PST |
you can never really know if someone in history had a medical / mental disorder. However I would speculate that Lincoln had several significant stressors that would depress anybody.. 2 children dead.
wife going a little crazy with grief
presiding over the ACW.. |
| 138SquadronRAF | 11 Jul 2018 10:56 a.m. PST |
They tended to call it 'Melancholy' in the earlier ages.
It was known from Antiquity: link First comprehensive study in English dates from the early 17th Century: link
In Lincoln's case these may be of interest:
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| Tango01 | 11 Jul 2018 11:50 a.m. PST |
Thanks my dear cousin…! Amicalement
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| donlowry | 11 Jul 2018 3:05 p.m. PST |
The word depressed has a more general meaning than the specific medical definition. |
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