TY  - BOOK
AU  - Norris,Kathleen
TI  - Acedia & me: a marriage, monks, and a writer's life 
SN  - 9781594484384
AV  - BT732.4 .N67 2010
PY  - 2010///
KW  - Norris, Kathleen,
KW  - Acedia
KW  - Melancholy
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Christianity
KW  - Sadness
KW  - Apathy
KW  - Monastic and religious life
KW  - Print books
KW  - local
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [332]-334); 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
N2  - Discusses the ancient concept of "soul weariness" and explores the phenomenon's relevance in modern culture, meditating on the ways in which depression-like acedia influenced the author's experiences as a writer, a family member, and a patient

ER  -