That's a very Victorian word *laughs* I think they used it when they meant what we call depression now.
Melancholia is exactly that. They often used it to describe Edgar Allan Poe; or Abraham Lincoln (as in, he had fits of melancholia). I just think it's a cooler-sounding word than "depression".
There's nothing I like more than seeing characters who are normally in control of everything slip for a split second.
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Date: 2009-02-22 08:53 pm (UTC)Melancholia is exactly that. They often used it to describe Edgar Allan Poe; or Abraham Lincoln (as in, he had fits of melancholia). I just think it's a cooler-sounding word than "depression".
There's nothing I like more than seeing characters who are normally in control of everything slip for a split second.
Ooooh, yes. I can think of several. ;)