Liz Keye

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When you're knackered and miserable you should just be allowed to be knackered and miserable and not have to stop being knackered and miserable near other people, who either make a face about it or try to cheer you up because their flesh is untested and their spirit is weak.

‘A wildly unrealistic Welsh recipe collection from around 1400 identified saffron, one of the most expensive spices, as a way “to be happy always” but warned against eating too much of it, lest “you die of happiness”.’ Barbara Newman on medieval wellness. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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If a KING (literally the best type of guy you can get) needs a whole other guy covered in bells doing pretend farts on the vizier's jelly just to keep his nut together then what chance have we got with, no offence, Vsauce.

In the olden days you'd have a jester whose whole job was to cheer you up and I don't see this addressed in the modern mental health literature enough.