LINCOLN’S DEMONS
Lincoln’s wit, his leadership, are all the more impressive since he was starting out standing in a deep hole, as it were. He was troubled by a proneness to depression, a fascination with madness. He was afraid that it could happen to him. He did not drink because whiskey left him, as he said, feeling ‘flabby and undone,’ out of control. Arguably one of his personal 3 AM demons [we all have 3 AM demons, don't we?] would threaten the destruction of his own reason, leaving him spinning in a mindless vortex without the power either to know or gainsay.
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