Saturday, April 24, 2010

The anatomy of melancholy

About four hundred years ago, the doctors of the time thought that melancholy was an object that resided in the human body, much like your liver or a kidney. They presumed that it was somewhere inside the human chest. Of course, they never found it. Fast forward, those x amount of years, and we're smart enough to know now that melancholy is mostly [mostly] caused by external factors such as watching too much news channel, listening to too much Jeff Buckley on repeat and letting another errant boy crack your heart like an egg over a hotplate.

But we're not smart enough to stop doing these things.

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