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Archive Home > 2008 > October > 12 > Defining a long lost word

Defining a long lost word

Author Kathleen Norris battles ‘demon of acedia’ in newest memoir

By Lynell George / The Bulletin
October 12, 2008

LOS ANGELES — We have a vast palette of words that attempt to express our downcast moods — “a funk,” “the blues,” “the doldrums.” All of them abstractions, euphemisms we employ in an effort to pinpoint something....

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