The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton
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The Three Parts of a Book About Melancholy
The book is in three partitions which you've already said from the bloke. It's like a they like sort of parts of the body The heart, liver and brain There are threes in all the way through. He reminds me at points like this of um The painter constable Because if you look at a painting by constable Depicting for example one moment on a summer afternoon with the clouds racing across the sky. And he talks about lustful monks who will not only join hands but kissing their toes etc.
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