Madness in opera

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Madness

here are clouds in the painting, of course. Almost any one of us would have included those clouds, thick with electricity and rainwater. And there is the wheat field, smudged out like an empty palm, orange beneath the storm-stricken sun. Surely, many of us would have insisted on the wheat as well. Through the middle of the wheat, a rutted road slices to the horizon and disappears beneath the cl...

Madness in Society

Madness in the Community

The cause of mental disorder remains uncertain, but evidence indicates that genetic vulnerability, early life experiences and recent stresses are important factors, in at least some cases. At a cellular level, pathological changes in the amount of chemical messengers which pass from one nerve cell to the next have been proposed, along with or as well as other abnormalities. The symptoms of ment...

Moon-madness *

Mother Nature is an exceedingly exacting old lady. She guards her treasures well and does not yield them on casual inquiry. To be sure, she has spread the stuff and substance of the Universe before everyone so that it might be described and classified. For generations men have eagerly approached this monumental job until at last there is available a fairly satisfactory account of the structure ...