Darwin, who was born into a large family that for two generations had been scientists, engineers, industrialists, and well-to-do landowners, and yet who, despite his genius, was a sufferer of neuroses, constant illnesses (he vomited every afternoon at four), a kind of hysteria that took the form of gasping and palpitation, and seizures of depression in which he wept uncontrollably.
- Guy Davenport
(the image is by Etienne Leopold Trouvelot of an "ideal section of the atmosphere of the sun."- Guy Davenport
From the fine woolgathersome.blogspot.com)
