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unusual facts about melancholy



A ribbon of poems

After he was notified Couperus wrote to Veen: If you like my poetry that much what would you say if we publish another book with verses; he wanted to include the poems called Fragment (renamed to Melancholy) Viviane, Williswinde, Ginevra, Semiramis and Fragments from the Apocapyps of John the Apostle.

Alan Wake's American Nightmare

Critics praised the change of style and tone from the earlier themes of isolation, light versus darkness, and melancholy, utilizing psychological horror tropes, found in Alan Wake to the madcap, Pulp-influenced themes in Alan Wake's American Nightmare, utilizing black comedy tropes found in works by Quentin Tarantino.

Beaker Street

One such performance was a melancholy rendition of a Tom Paxton song, Cindy's Cryin, performed by the Little Rock band Deepwater Reunion with vocalist Barbara Raney.

Cosmetic pharmacology

Cosmetic psychopharmacology, a term coined in 1990 by the psychiatrist Peter D. Kramer and popularized in his 1993 book Listening to Prozac, refers to the use of drugs to move persons from a normal psychological state to another normal state that is more desired or better socially rewarded — e.g., from melancholy toward assertiveness and confidence or from slower to quicker cognition.

Dark metal

Many writers, including Ian Christe, music journalist Chuck Eddy, Sara Pendergast, Tom Pendergast, Natalie J Purcell, Brian Reesman, Jeff Wagner, and Steven Wilson, find that there is a melancholy tone that distinguishes dark metal bands from their contemporaries.

Dorothy Goetz

Five months later he decided to write about his wife's death, pouring his grief into the ballad called "When I Lost You", a simple waltz with a bittersweet harmony under the melancholy melody.

Duchess Marie of Württemberg

Historian Gillian Gill describes Marie as a "severe and melancholy lady".

Evgeniy Chuikov

His landscapes became more assertive with colour and brush strokes and developed a historic melancholy characteristic of such 19th-century Russian realists as Arkady Rylov and Isaac Levitan.

F. C. D. Wyneken

Considered a "tireless" church worker by others, he confessed, rather, that he "suffered horribly from melancholy".

Guise Will Be Guise

In an essay comparing the character of Angel to "melancholy loner" Lord Byron, Amy-Chinn points out that Angel's obsession with his appearance - a running joke in the series - is overtly mocked in this episode, when the swami asks Angel why he dresses in black and drives a black convertible, despite

Howler monkey

Alexander von Humboldt said about howler monkeys, "their eyes, voice, and gait are indicative of melancholy", while John Lloyd Stephens described those at the Maya ruins of Copán as "grave and solemn, almost emotionally wounded, as if officiating as the guardians of consecrated ground".

Joey Calderazzo

In June 2011, Branford Marsalis and Joey Calderazzo released their first duo album Songs of Mirth and Melancholy, on Branford's Marsalis Music label.

Johns Quijote

Johns Quijote's music style is a smooth jazz, rock, cabaret and Tom Waits-esque music style, often described as 'adult, cultivated, and melancholy'.

László Krasznahorkai

1993: Bestenliste-Prize (Baden-Baden, Germany) for The Melancholy of Resistance

Let the Blind Lead Those Who Can See but Cannot Feel

Seeing him at a bus stop while vacationing in Savannah, Georgia, Cox was "attracted to him, but not in some kind of like, just physical way." Seeing "his melancholy, his sitting alone, staring at the ground", he "fell in love" with him.

Lisa Lucas

The film stars Jason Robards (1922–2000) as a melancholy widowed father James Mills, and Mildred Natwick (1905–1994) as the grandmother.

Manfred Gnädinger

In November 2002, when the oil spill of the Prestige destroyed his sculptures and the ecosystem of the area he lived in, it is thought that Man let himself die of melancholy and sadness, thus becoming a symbol of the destruction unleashed by the oil spill.

Matmos

Daniel successfully defended his dissertation on the literary cult of melancholy, directed by Janet Adelman at the University of California, Berkeley, and is currently an assistant professor in the Department of English at Johns Hopkins University.

Melancholia

("Always Dowland, always mourning.") The melancholy man, known to contemporaries as a "malcontent," is epitomized by Shakespeare's Prince Hamlet, the "Melancholy Dane." Other major melancholic authors include Sir Thomas Browne, and Jeremy Taylor, whose Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial and Holy Living and Holy Dying, respectively, contain extensive meditations on death.

O Vrba

The sonnet is dedicated to the Prešeren's home village of Vrba, expressing a sense of general melancholy over the lost idyll of the rural environment.

Pierre Joseph Buchoz

He was devoted to botany, but was also interested in the treatment of melancholy and recommended music as therapy.

Richard Gene Arno

The Five Temperaments in addition include Choleric, Melancholy, Sanguine and Phlegmatic.

Susan Fereday

Her doctoral thesis, Light Out of Darkness: the origin of photography in mystery and melancholy, explored occluded meanings in the early photographs of Nicéphore Niépce and William Henry Fox Talbot.

The Head Shop

The album also includes a melancholy version of another hit song of the period, "Sunny" by Bobby Hebb.

The Lost Pieces

Next is a melancholy piece titled “Since We Are Away”, which was recorded at a time when the artist was separated by great distance from his wife Linda Kohanov.

The Melancholy of Departure

In 1987 the American jazz musicians Mark Isham and Art Lande released a song titled “The Melancholy of Departure” on their collaborative album We Begin.

The Street of Crocodiles

The book, inspired by Schulz's short story and available in print and electronic formats, is introduced by The Village Voice film critic, J. Hoberman, as "...a walk on the wild side, an expedition down a melancholy boulevard of dreams."

Theodosius Forrest

He was thrown into a condition of deep melancholy, and on 5 November 1784 killed himself at his chambers in George Street, York Buildings, London.

Transcranial direct-current stimulation

In 1801, Giovanni Aldini (Galvani's nephew) started a study in which he successfully used the technique of direct current stimulation to improve the mood of melancholy patients.

We Begin

“The Melancholy of Departure” takes its title from a 1916 work by the Italian metaphysical painter Giorgio de Chirico.

William Henry Brookfield

He had the melancholy temperament often associated with humour, and suffered from ill-health, which in 1851 necessitated a voyage to Madeira.

Williswinde

The content of Williswinde was: Voorrede (Preface), Weemoed (Melancholy), Viviane, Williswinde, Ginevra, Semiramis, Fragmenten uit Johannes' Apocalyps (Fragments from the Book of Revelation of John) and Verantwoording (Accountability).

Wit and Mirth, or Pills to Purge Melancholy

This was a more folky treatment than the one by Will Holt, who published an album of 10 songs entitled Pills to Purge Melancholy (Stinson SLP78).

Wit and Mirth: Or Pills to Purge Melancholy is the title of a large collection of songs by Thomas d'Urfey, published between 1698 and 1720, which in its final, six-volume edition held over 1,000 songs and poems.


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