M is for Melancholy

This week we get all pensive and dreamy as we experience the melancholic magic of a major 7th chordMy first recollection of melancholy is seeing a road sign designated "Melancholy Lane". A quick Google search confirms this childhood memory as being on the Dorset road from Wareham to Corfe Castle, a fantastically crumbling ruin that inspired an eerie sense of awe in my young self. This early memory has imprinted this elusive emotion into my brain as a positive experience, and I have been drawn ev...

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