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  • mcguire 2160 days ago
    One would have thought that they could have worked in a reference to "Supernatural Horror in Literature", since most of the texts they they list are highlighted there.

    And oddly, I was just watching a lecture by Andrew George at Harvard's Semitic Museum on The Epic of Gilgamesh. It, too, is pretty melancholy.

    • defen 2160 days ago
      I was more surprised that they included Tim Burton but not Robert Burton, considering he wrote The Anatomy of Melancholy
      • stochastic_monk 2159 days ago
        I’m not very impressed at all, to be fair. The only place I was even felt positive they pointed out was Nine Inch Nails’ synth pop artistic lineage, which I think is essential for fully understanding what he has to say. It’s like a high school essay fluff piece.

        As an aside, I have come to expect little from a site so fixated on exploiting trypophobia for their ad scheme.

  • Tharkun 2159 days ago
    While reading the title, I was briefly hoping this would be about the webcomic A Softer World. They bundled their best comics in a book titled The Anatomy of Melancholy.