Robert Burton's _The Anatomy of Melancholy_

[Glenn Scheper]

Isn't there a rule, or was it only a jest, to limit
lists to three apositives, synoynms, amplifications?
Not so in Robert Burton's _The Anatomy of Melancholy_!

I thought it high time to read it, and made a more palatable
version at: http://home.earthlink.net/~glenn_scheper/rbam.txt
specially formatted for you P-listers from the source file at
http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/0/8/0/10800/10800-h/10800-h.htm
for reading in Reading Acceleration Machine, freeware from here:
http://www.slu.edu/colleges/AS/languages/classical/ram/ram.html

After the inherent html warping and text wraping of Surf17.exe,
I applied the following sed script. Would I had a Latin filter:

1,74d
9178,$d
/^$/d
/	/d
s/—/-/g
s/\[[0-9][0-9]*\]//g
s/&#x[0-9A-F][0-9A-F][0-9A-F][0-9A-F];/~/g
s/&[a-zA-Z][a-z0-9A-Z]*;/~/g

I wrapped to count and clause bounds with "wt -m . in>out",
and saved it for you above, and read it in RAM, setup thus:
 26pt lucida font
 [x] pause per word
 100 ms per line
 100 ms per word.
 Open downloaded rbam.txt.
 Press AUTO.

You too, can sop it all up in 1-3/4 hours.

I would not weary you by totalizing and spitting out Burton,
as Barthleme before, but I note Pynchon called Barthleme no
metaphysician, and I know Pynchon knows the grounds to rule.

This man of the cloth lauds industry, and gave me momentary
hope, for I am industrious to a fault, all the while saying
it is of the world, a distraction. But his intended reforms
excited me to wish he had run for President. Then the U.S.A.
could be a land of uniform acheivement, as white sepulchres.

Yours truly,
Glenn Scheper
http://home.earthlink.net/~glenn_scheper/
glenn_scheper + at + earthlink.net
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