Honestly any information anyone has on Freitag or the book would be much appreciated! It's been a fascinating read, but finding scholarship on it has been a total bust.
The book is from 1678 and appears to have been published posthumously, since Freitag lived from 1581-1641. I'm curious to know if it was originally printed in Latin, however, since it seems like most of his works were, or if the vernacular edition was the primary one.
I love the knowledge that the Germans did this too, because I've mostly seen it in English books from the same era. Everyone just loved a long sentence back then.
(This is for my research project this semester, which I'm very excited for! I'll be digging into some primary sources on Friday, which will be much more glamorous, but background research is good, too)
Reverse SAD is a thing! It's not nearly as well-known, but I struggle with it and have talked with mental health professionals about it before.
Congratulations!!
We need weird books. We need normal books. We need books that speak to the dark place in your soul; we need books that make you hope and think everything’s going to be okay. We need books where the monsters are the most human and books where the monsters are monsters.
I met my queerplatonic partner online and call her by an online nickname still. Now that we're looking at wedding stuff together, I'm having to call her by her "real" name a lot more and it's throwing me for a loop.
I cannot fathom how many lives it would change if he pushed for something like this at the federal level. So, keeping in mind that we have to vote up and down the ballot as well as keep the pressure on our elected officials once folks are in office, let's make it happen.