"Robert Burton matriculated at OXFORD in 1593, became a scholar of Christ Church College in 1599, AND STAYED THERE TILL HE DIED. HE NEVER TRAVELED, NEVER MARRIED, NEVER SOUGHT 'SUCCESS' OR ATTAINED IT; HE EXISTED EXCLUSIVELY AMONG BOOKS--OLD, CRABBED BOOKS BY PREFERENCE. ALL THIS ABSORPTION IN BOOKS WAS SUPPOSED (according to the lore of traditional medicine and the theory of "humors" dating back to the Greeks) to THROW THE CONSTITUTION OUT OF BALANCE AND PRODUCE A "MELANCHOLY" TEMPERAMENT. . ."--Norton Anthology of Englit. Vol One, page 1695. "Close up your books/Get out of your seats/down the halls/and into the streets" --CHUCK BERRY, "School Days." "Marching on the English Department while the Right Wing took over the White House"--Chapter title from "The Twilight of Common Dreams: Why America is Wracked by Culture Wars"--by Todd Gitlin, 1995.