(C) Jason Krueger/DT^FDM
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(m) Midisoft/EM^FDM
"Let me, in the meantime, advise the future
or to the real reader, if he is susceptible
melancholy. Let him not look for signs or
announcements in what is said below, so that
it didn’t cause him any trouble and it didn’t work out
more evil than good if he uses
this is to yourself... like most melancholics."
R. Barton, Anatomy of melancholy


Hello, dear ones.
I want to congratulate you on the release of the first
issues of the tabloid newspaper "Melancholia". you,
Of course you will say: “Again the newspaper!” Well,
tell me, in the end I don’t care
vat. The motives for creating this leaflet are fully
are reflected in the title: boredom and melancho-
Liya. Just don’t confuse it with depression, please.
this, suicidal syndrome is not a problem for me
character. However, this is already superfluous - sincere
the outpourings disgust me. What
What matters to you is what is typical for me, but
what not?
If you hope to find something of interest here -
information - I will be forced to disappoint you
enchant. She simply isn’t here. Firstly,
the presentation of any facts is unlikely to improve
ruins my mood (namely for this purpose,
dear readers, I decided to start publishing
"Melancholia"), and secondly, you, dear,
you are hardly worth my efforts to find and
reprinting the so-called "informa-
tion". Look through it, though. Maybe something-
someday you will find it.
As for melancho itself,
li... METAPHYSICS OF MELANCHOLY.
A short treatise on nature
and the main differences in the state,
known as melancholy.
If anyone decided to spend
global and comprehensive research
object of our consideration, then I do not doubt
I am not sure that the results of this study
would take up several very large volumes.
And therefore we will limit ourselves to only brief
judgments about the subject. Those who can be
maybe he'll want to know more about him, whoever...
barks to explore the inner world of a melancholic person in
in its entirety, we refer to the cited
"Anatomy" and to "Aphorisms of Aesthetics" Kjær-
kegora.
First of all, melancholy should be distinguished
partfrom depression. There is no doubt that both of these
illness can be attributed to one type, but so
there is no doubt that melancholy is more
more aristocratic than depression. This
how to compare hepatitis C and gout. If
the main emotion of the depressive type is
there is suffering, then for such a melancholic
it becomes boring. If others explain
in words, the first one constantly wants to die,
and the second one no longer wants this either.
A melancholic person is usually an educated person.
He read a lot in the hope of escaping the miracle
a powerful ghost of unbearable boredom, manifested
got to him in his distant youth and therefore
has long formed his vision of the world.
Like any cultured person, melancholy
Lik prefers to speak in quotes and thoughts
flow with philosophical currents. Because first of all
a phrase supported by the name of a deceased class-
Sika always looks more convincing, but
secondly, it helps him avoid unnecessary
brain strain when resolving idle
In general, there are disputes.
Suicidal syndrome rarely torments me-
Lancholic. One could even say more: the one
who experiences the above syndrome does not
is melancholic. All the sweetness and
truly diabolicalattractiveness of sa-
murder, the hero of our study is tested
Tal since childhood. Now all this is not a cause-
he seems to have no interest. Oh no, melancholy
the holic knows perfectly well that the result is suffocation
cutting with a loop looks unesthetically pleasing, and the veins
definitely need to cut lengthwise. But the idea itself
about constructing a noose or lying with a confused
veins in the bathtub makes him ze-
vat. Death is generally of little interest to melancho-
face “Should I live or die,” he thinks,
What the hell difference does it make?" Everything that
what he knows about death is that it is "ek-
existential situation." He doesn't need more
necessary.
The melancholic person is also not interested in love.
Of course, he is not stupid enough to say
to expect that love does not exist, because, how...
an educated man, he understands perfectly well
that this combination of letters is not absolute
character and any interpretation of the word-
va "love" is ultimately true. Just
he is not interested in any of the known in-
interpretations - he explored all of them in those
times when I was young and stupid. "So for
Why repeat what has already been done? - says
I'm melancholic. - Moreover, with women
Usually there is so much fuss..." In extreme cases
he can read Miller's prose.
Writings, which will certainlycaptivating
most cultured people usually
our hero doesn't care much. He is not Jewish. He is
does not believe in the power of signs and that the sacrament
writing can create the world. For him
writing is just the ability to combine thirty-three
letters and several auxiliary symbols
fishing However, some melancholic people still
undertake to write novels. Such novels are usually
but are called the incomprehensible term “postmo-
turf."
And even human stupidity is not entertaining
repents and no longer irritates the melancholic: be
then stupidity is clearly structured and art-
reasoned (like “esotericism”)
or delirium of inspiration. Doesn't entertain because
There has become too much stupidity like this, more than once
annoying for the reason that melancholic
I found out a long time ago: “no matter what you do,
nothing changes anything." In general, the main
a trait of a melancholic person can be considered calmness
event. But this is not that self-confident calm
the phlegmatic, on the contrary, one might even say
remember that the calmness of a melancholic person is pro-
the opposite of the calmness of a phlegmatic person. Me-
the lancholic person is indifferent to everything precisely because
lu of the above thesis: in fact,
why do anything if in any case
everything will remain the same as it has always been.Be
maybe the occultists are not lying, and the movement
the astral body is actually possible, but
a melancholic person is not interested in this.He won't
meditate to find out if there is
God or not. Absolutely arbitrarily choosing
at one time atheism or religiosity, melan-
the holic continues to follow his beliefs
well, not particularly interested in the latest research
developments in this area. "I lived twenty
five years without the astral, - it’s quite reasonable to say
he says, “I’ll continue to live.” Melancho-
face, a man born at the end of the European
th civilization is a living embodiment
Nietzschean ressentiment.
It's hard to blame a melancholic person for
he does not try to overcome his condition.
Firstly, as sad as it may be, absolutely
There is no cure for melancholy
et. Secondly, the end of the twentieth - the beginning
twenty-first century - not the best
time to struggle with the subject of our study
following (it should be noted that most
There is a favorite era among melancholic people, in which
which, as they believe, they would live much better
before is better). If earlier, about fifty years ago
it was quite possible to participate in some
some kind of revolution or at worst
military coup, now unfortunate
virtually deprived of any chance of becoming new
Byron or Che Guevara. He is deprived even of that
nothing more than an opportunity to emigrate
to America to live there on welfare (Mar-
gynality is in the blood of a melancholic person) and
nothing more than an opportunity to emigrate
to America to live there on welfare (Mar-
gynality is in the blood of a melancholic person) and
walking along Broadway at night.
Thus, to the modern melancholic
there is nothing left to do but wander around
gray labyrinth of our provincial
town, embodying its almost meta-
physical standard abstract high-
Degger's Man, drinking in the company of the same
like he marginalized vodka, fight about
and without, and have fun in the company of cheap
whores. However, he does all this rather spontaneously.
automatically, in order to kill time before that bla-
sacred day when death will cease
during the same everyday life. Ultimately
whatever the melancholic person does, it gives him
but I'm tired of it. Even if he does something
first time. What did you want? This is the era.
Postmodern, gentlemen...
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