From Anatomy of Melancholy

[Robin Landseadel]

Soothing the savage breast, so help me Hecate!
On Nov 16, 2008, at 9:41 AM, Mark Kohut wrote:

> this 'Bodine" is in A of M??????
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> --- On Sun, 11/16/08, robinlandseadel at comcast.net <robinlandseadel at comcast.net 
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>> From: robinlandseadel at comcast.net <robinlandseadel at comcast.net>
>> Subject: From Anatomy of Melancholy
>> To: "P-list" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>> Date: Sunday, November 16, 2008, 11:27 AM
>> Or, why Bodine?
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>> ". . . But to leave all declamatory speeches in praise
>> of divine music, I will confine myself to my proper subject:
>> besides that excellent power it hath to expel many other
>> diseases, it is a sovereign remedy against despair and
>> melancholy, and will drive away the devil himself. Canus, a
>> Rhodian fiddler in Philostratus, when Apollonius was
>> inquisitive to know what he could do with his pipe, told
>> him, "that he would make a melancholy man merry, and
>> him that was merry much merrier than before, a lover more
>> enamoured, a religious man more devout." Ismenias the
>> Theban, Chiron the centaur, is said to have cured this and
>> many other diseases by music alone: as now they do those,
>> saith Bodine, that are troubled with St. Vitus' Bedlam
>> dance. . ."
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