Heavy, Heavy, Hangover Thy Head

January, 1960

Heavy, Heavy, Hangover Thy HeadOne of the most inadequate definitions in Webster's New International Dictionary of the English Language, Second Edition, Unabridged, is: "hang'-o'ver, n. The effect of a period of dissipation after the exhilaration has worn off." The understatement is devastating, for in that one word "effect" is concealed a terrible world of meaning.When you do not simply awaken, but fight to get up from bottomless black depths, when your eyelids have turned t...