Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/08/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi, Martin, Are your thinking of the four humours: black and yellow bile, blood and phlegm? I think that melancholy was thought to be a result of these being out of balance in some way. In reality, we now know that a major cause of melancholy is being a Buffalo Bills fan (if only Scott Norwood would have hit that field goal against the Giants...). cheers, frank Martin Howard wrote: > Dante Stella wrote: > > > It used to be called "melancholy," back in the age of cybernetics and > > phrenology. > > Wasn't it one of the four fluids at some point? > > M. > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- "The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true." -J. Robert Oppenheimer - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html