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I like reading and find excellent recommendations on this site by Fred Wilson ! New Years Eve we spend with out friend Dr Cesar Augustus Hernandez a prominent Pyschiatrist originally from Puerto Rico !  Cesar is an expert in the field of Addicition !   We also talked a lot about depression  which is a real disease in our time !  So I decided to read a book again that I read years ago ! The Anatomy of Melacholy

On its surface, the book is a medical textbook in which Burton applies his large and varied learning in the scholastic manner to the subject of melancholia (which includes what is now termed clinical depression).
Though presented as a medical text, The Anatomy of Melancholy is as much a sui generis work of literature as it is a scientific or philosophical text, and Burton addresses far more than his stated subject. In fact, the Anatomy uses melancholy as the lens through which all human emotion and thought may be scrutinized, and virtually the entire contents of a 17th-century library are marshalled into service of this goal.[1]
Burton is forthright about his intentions in writing the Anatomy — "I write of melancholy by being busy to avoid melancholy," he concedes. This acknowledged desire to distract and amuse himself motivated Burton to produce a uniquely wide-ranging document, stuffed with digressions and commentary. Whatever its strengths as a medical text or as a historical document, it is the Anatomy's vast breadth — addressing everything from digestion to goblins to the geography of America[1] — and the particularly characteristic voice of its author that are most commonly cited by its admirers as the main sources of its appeal. Both satirical and serious in tone, the Anatomy is "vitalized by (Burton's) pervading humour"[2], and Burton's digressive and inclusive style, often verging on a stream of consciousness, consistently informs and animates the text.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Anatomy_of_Melancholy
I was also reminded of this quote ! "We don't see things as they are we see things as we are !"  Talmud

The Talmud (Hebrew: ?????????) is a record of rabbinic discussions pertaining to Jewish law, ethics, customs, and history. It is a central text of Judaism, second only to the Hebrew Bible in importance.
The Talmud has two components: the Mishnah (c. 200 CE), the first written compendium of Judaism's Oral Law; and the Gemara (c. 500 CE), a discussion of the Mishnah and related Tannaitic writings that often ventures onto other subjects and expounds broadly on the Tanakh.
The terms Talmud and Gemara are often used interchangeably. The Gemara is the basis for all codes of rabbinic law and is much quoted in other rabbinic literature. The whole Talmud is also traditionally referred to as Shas (?"?), a Hebrew abbreviation of shisha sedarim, the "six orders" of the Mishnah.

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