Acedia & me a marriage, monks, and a writer's life
Kathleen Norris's masterpiece: a personal and moving memoir that resurrects the ancient term acedia, or soul-weariness, and brilliantly explores its relevancy to the modern individual and culture.
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New York :
Riverhead Books,
2008.
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Table of Contents:
- Somewhere
- Tedium
- From eight bad thoughts to seven sins
- Psyche, soul, and muse
- Up and down
- Give me a word
- Acedia's progress
- Acedia's decline
- A silent despair
- The quotidian mysteries
- The "noon" of midlife
- Day by day
- And to the end arriving
- A widow's uneasy afterword
- Acedia: a commonplace book.
