black dog, family-planning attitudes and practices

'Message From an Unknown Chinese Mother'

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Reviewed by LESLEY DOWNER

A shocking account of family-planning attitudes and practices in China.

'Killing the Black Dog' and 'Taller When Prone'

By LES MURRAY
Reviewed by MEGHAN O'ROURKE

The Australian poet Les Murray offers a memoir of his depression, and a new book of verse.

Hamlet by William Shakespeare: “O, that this too, too sullied flesh would melt.” In Shakespeare’s play, the young prince despairs of the unendurable condition of being human. While we’ll never know if the playwright intended his protagonist to be clinically depressed, scores of modern scholars have interpreted his soliloquies as evidence of mental instability. Mourning his dead father, betrayed by his newly remarried mother, and wondering what the point is in going on, Hamlet exemplifies the depressive’s search for meaning in a seemingly indifferent world.

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black dog

NOUN

A metaphorical representation of melancholy or depression:I may still have a black dog in me, but I manage to keep him corralledI’m happy but the black dogs are there, lurking round the corner

除了民俗的'魔鬼"說法
牠常用來指'憂鬱症" (如邱吉爾說的)

A black dog is the name given to a being found primarily in the folklores of the British Isles. The black dog is essentially a nocturnal apparition, often said to be associated with the Devil, and its appearance was regarded as a portent of death. It is generally supposed to be larger than a normal dog, and often has large, glowing eyes.^[1]
It is often associated with electrical storms (such as Black Shuck's appearance at Bungay, Suffolk),^[2] and also with crossroads, places of execution and ancient pathways.^[1][3][4]