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Article: THE ABYSS OF SADNESS.(Brief Article)(Review) (book reviews)
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- Commonweal
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- October 22, 1999
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At first, this book gives you the impression that you are perusing merely an autobiographical account of psychological depression. The narrative is vivid, it is insightful, and it has an unmistakable ring of authenticity. You read on, and you discover that there is more here than a strictly clinical description: human suffering, in the raw, is laid bare. The aching heart floats disabled in a choppy, dark sea of hopelessness. Nor is this pure metaphor: The magnitude of the distress is oceanic; its immensity oppresses, its fathomless depth drowns the mind. It cannot be willed away. It suffocates and constricts, and reason is powerless against its progress. It bubbles up from ...
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