Saturday, December 13, 2008

The Anatomy of Melancholy: Part 1

So this is my first blog. It's interesting. To think what to talk about........well i have started reading a book that i am pretty sure fell of the face of this earth for years and i just hapen to stumble across it. It's called "The Anatomy of Melancholy" by Robert Burton. This book was written in the fifteen-hundreds(hence the falling of the face of this earth). It is mainly about depression. I would explain it more but as i started reading the book i got stopped about thirteen pages in where i found two pages of a different language. As interested as i was i decided to translate it. And it is pretty hard when you don't know the language. But i did find out that the mysterious language was Latin. But if you are interested in reading about the view of depression from the begining, i advice you to read the book. But if you are one of those persons(yes, that is proper grammer) that doesn't like to read books about knowledge or perhaps just doesn't like to read then are always spark notes. Which really don't give you that full ability of learning everything from the book but a decent amount.
And if you are interested at all but don't have the time to read it, i will probably keep updates about the book.

2 comments:

  1. You're such a great writer! I really think you should write a book one day! :)

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