Stephen Martin Thailand   Fig 1. Sophia Amelia Peabody. Villa Menaggio, Lago di Como, 1839–40. © 2007 Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA. Photography by Dennis Helmar.  There are interesting questions about how the mental phenomenology of the great writer Nathaniel Hawthorne1 drove his work. His supreme narrative gift and engaging observation were shadowed by anhedonia,…