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[djinny]

I'm in the midst of an American Masterpieces course and was reading about Melville.  Referring to his third book: "Mardi is, in fact, almost unreadable, except for a rarely dedicated lover of antiquarian literary, philosophical, metaphysical, and political hodgepodge--the sort of eccentric scholar who loves Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy and Browne's Vulgar Errors."  Has anyone read any of those?  My interest is piqued.

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