A boy is painting the guesthouse with me after reading The Anatomy of Melancholy
Nobody has ever read from cover to cover that great tome: The Anatomy of Melancholy, What it is: With all the Kinds, Causes, Symptomes, Prognostickes, and Several Cures of it. In Three Maine Partitions with their several Sections, Members, and Subsections. Philosophically, Medicinally, Historically, Opened and Cut Up by Robert Burton
... mainly because it was written in olde englishe in 1621 and is around 1600 pages long ...
This scholarly investigation, the largest ever undertaken of its kind, investigates the curse and the causes of medieval melancholy ... or what we now call depression, low mood, sadness, nostalgia, anxiety, self-pity, indolence, misery, stress and despair - or what I call Tuesday.
But give the Mr Burton credit - after spending over ten years in writing and research he does actually come up with a practical cure for the condition in six words ...
... Be Not Solitary, Be Not Idle
or what I call Tuesday!!!!!!!!!! ahahahaha! (laughing my ass off.) oh ya, and all the rest.
ReplyDelete(and to think, my boy, holding the weighty hood ornament from a 1953 Oldsmobile Eight-eight, just said, do this, whereby he clunked the very large thing upon his head and then moved it to his ear to listen. and i'll be darned, i did it. your house, smart. my house, well- )
what a gorgeous photograph.
painting the room together, no one alone.
xo
erin