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It has come to my attention that I have not fulfilled my allotted quota of misery and despair. Have a little something.

Je suis le Ténébreux, - le Veuf, - l'Inconsolé,
Le Prince d'Aquitaine à la Tour abolie :
Ma seule Étoile est morte, - et mon luth constellé
Porte le Soleil noir de la Mélancolie.

- Gérard de Nerval

[Black Sun of Melancholy WBAGNFARB.] Gérard de Nerval kept a pet lobster, and took it for walks on a leash; "it doesn't bark, and it knows the secrets of the sea".