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• n  extreme depression characterized by tearful sadness and irrational fears

• We might want to return to a simple definition of mental illness offered by Aristotle: "If fear or sadness lasts for a long time, it is melancholia.
• His voice is often sampled, distorted by synthesizers, his lyrics broken into elegiac fragments, shards of thoughts, mantras of melancholia.
• Being wealthy and intense young New York intellectuals, Kit and Port Moresby glibly fell into lingo so appropriate that Noel Coward might have written it in a fit of melancholia.

News & Articles

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• ‘This Is the End’ latest movie to have fun with apocalypse
  NEW YORK — The Earth has been coming to an end with comic frequency. We’ve seen tsunamis sweep the oceans (“2012”), the world freeze over (“The Day After Tomorrow”) and a rogue planet bear down (“Melancholia”). So many have been patrolling a desolate Earth — Will Smith (“After Earth”), Tom Cruise (“Oblivion”), a cute cleanup robot (“WALL-E”) — that even the post-apocalyptic world is getting ...
  June 13, 2013 - The News-Herald
• The end of the world, turning on a comic axis
  NEW YORK (AP) — The Earth has been coming to an end with comic frequency. We've seen tsunamis sweep the oceans ("2012"), the world freeze over ("The Day After Tomorrow") and a rogue planet bear down ("Melancholia"). So many have been patrolling a desolate Earth — Will Smith ("After Earth"), Tom Cruise ("Oblivion"), a cute cleanup robot ("WALL-E") — that even the post-apocalyptic world is getting ...
  June 12, 2013 - Associated Press via Yahoo! News
• 'This Is the End': The end of the world, turning on a comic axis
  The Earth has been coming to an end with comic frequency. We've seen tsunamis sweep the oceans ("2012"), the world freeze over ("The Day After Tomorrow") and a rogue planet bear down ("Melancholia"). So many have been patrolling a desolate Earth — Will Smith ("After Earth"), Tom Cruise ("Oblivion"), a cute cleanup robot ("WALL-E") — that even the post-apocalyptic world is getting crowded.
  June 12, 2013 - Kingston Daily Freeman

Quotes

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• Shirley Povich in TexasRangers.com
  If there was no general wet-eyed melancholia in the stadium, there were still unmistakable pockets of bitterness,Shirley Povich wrote in the Washington Post. "From the upper stands hung banners spelling out four-letter words in large...
• Gordon Parker in ABC Science Online
  Clinical depression in the old days was black melancholia,says Parker. "Now we've got blue becoming the new black."
• David Gray in Canoe.ca
  Gray describes the next record as more of "a mood piece." "I'm always writing low-key music that's quite mellow. The sort of feisty numbers that really convince you are few and far between, but the sort of melancholia, there's always lots of...