Morbidity

a strange sensation and much akin to depression

It hit me in a strange way when I was rewatching Juno by Geppetto and the Whales and I realised that they have the habit of carrying around a painting of Pope Pius XII. It seems like an odd choice to me, but then one hardly ever chooses a lucky charm consciously. Regrettably it made me dive into Pius' biography and apart from the fact that he is a much disliked pope - especially Francis Bacon seems to have been obsessed with him -, the other item that caught my eye was that he obviously was the first pope to die publicly due to an excessive media coverage.

Luckily Juno is a song that cheers me up again.