noonday

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And he wants to help others who have been tempted, as he was helped by Andrew Solomon’s 2001 masterwork on depression, “The Noonday Demon.”

From New York Times • Mar. 26, 2023

It was considered one of the eight bad thoughts of monastic life and characterized as the Noonday Demon.

From Salon • Jan. 10, 2022

Director Peter Medak’s documentary looks back at the harrowing experience Medak had trying to make the disastrous 1974 pirate comedy “Ghost in the Noonday Sun” with Sellers as the star.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 13, 2020

Andrew Solomon, a writer, activist and lecturer whose books include The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression which won the National Book Award, chose this line from Emma Lazarus’s letter collection Epistle to the Hebrews.

From The Guardian • Jul. 22, 2019

One—Two—Three— And away they go, Not too fast, And not too slow; Out from the elm-tree's Noonday shadow, Into the sun And across the meadow.

From Shandygaff by Morley, Christopher