He was born in Manchester. His father was a successful businessman with an interest in literature; he died when Thomas was quite young. Soon after Thomas's birth the family moved to The Farm, and later to Greenhay, a larger country house near Manchester. In 1796 De Quincey's mother, now a widow, moved to Bath and enrolled him at King Edward's School, Bath. Thomas was a weak and sickly child. His youth was spent in solitude, and when his elder brother, William, came home, he wreaked havoc in the quiet surroundings. De Quincey's mother ...

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Brihad-aranyaka or -aranya Upanishad (Sanskrit) (from brihad great + aranyaka produced in a forest)

A celebrated Upanishad, forming the last five prapathakas (sections) of the Satapatha-Brahmana -- one of the most important of the Brahmanas -- attributed to Yajnavalkya. The title refers to this class of highly mystical and metaphysical literary work supposed to have been thought out by sages while retired in the solitudes of mountain and forest. Aranyaka is closely associated with Upanishad, and often used interchangeably with it; thus this work is often called Brihad-Upanishad or Brihad-aranyaka-upanishad.

(See also: Brihad-aranyaka, Aranya Upanishad, Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary, Occultism, Occultism Dictionary)

In the 1920s and 1930s, at the height of his popularity, Jeffers was famous for being a tough outdoorsman, living in relative solitude and writing of the difficulty and beauty of the wild. He spent most of his life in Carmel, California, in a granite house that he had built himself called "Tor House". He later built a large four-storey stone tower on the site called Hawk Tower, based on similar structures he had seen traveling through Ireland. Construction on Tor House continued into the late 1950s and early 1960s, and was completed by his e ...

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Robinson Jeffers, Robinson Jeffers - Life, Robinson Jeffers - Poetic career, Robinson Jeffers - Quotations, Robinson Jeffers - Bibliography

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French artist Jean Dubuffet was particularly struck by Bildnerei der Geisteskranken and began his own collection of such art, which he called Art Brut or Raw Art. In 1948 he formed the Compagnie de l'Art Brut along with other artists including André Breton. The collection he established became known as the Collection de l'Art Brut. It contains thousands of works and is now permanently housed in Lausanne. Dubuffet characterized Art Brut as: "Those works created from solitude and from pure and authenti ...

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Outsider Art, Outsider Art - Art of the Insane, Outsider Art - Jean Dubuffet and Art Brut, Outsider Art - The Cultural Context of the Outsider Art category, Outsider Art - Vocabulary, Outsider Art - Notable Outsider artists, Outsider Art - Selected Bibliography

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Tokyo, 1991 Alice Sakaguchi (坂口亜梨子): A quiet and shy young woman. She recently moved to Tokyo from a town in Hokkaido. She misses Hokkaido because she had peace and solitude there. When we first meet Alice she's engaged in a bitter feud with the boy next door, Rin Kobyashi. We learn over the course of several volumes that Alice is usually a very nice person, and Rin pushed her over the edge. In her previous life, Alice was Mokuren. She retains Mokuren's ability to talk to plants, and make plants grow by singing to ...

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Please Save My Earth, Please Save My Earth - Story, Please Save My Earth - Characters, Please Save My Earth - North American availability, Please Save My Earth - Trivia

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The next great monastic revival, the Cistercian, arising in the last years of the 11th century, had a wider diffusion, and a longer and more honourable existence. Owing its real origin, as a distinct foundation of reformed Benedictines, in the year 1098, to Stephen Harding (a native of Dorset, educated in the monastery of Sherborne), and deriving its name from Citeaux (Cistercium), a desolate and almost inaccessible forest solitude, on the borders of Champagne and Burgundy, the rapid growth and wide celebrity of the order are undoubtedly to ...

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Abbey, Abbey - Benedictine abbeys, Abbey - Westminster Abbey, Abbey - York, Abbey - English Cluniac, Abbey - Cistercian, Abbey - Abbey Church of St.-Denis, Abbey - Clairvaux Abbey, Abbey - Citeaux Abbey, Abbey - Kirkstall Abbey, Abbey - Fountains Abbey, Abbey - Austin Canons, Abbey - Bristol Cathedral, Abbey - Premonstratensians, Abbey - Carthusian, Abbey - Clermont, Abbey - Mendicant Friars, Abbey - Norwich Gloucester, Abbey - Hulne, Abbey - Cells, Abbey - Abbots and abbesses as rulers, Abbey - Nunnery

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On July 18, 1954, Mr. Gayed was led to the monastic life at "El-Suryan" Monastery in the western desert of Egypt; he was given the name of Father Antonyos El-Suryaani. For six years, from 1956 to 1962, he lived a life of solitude in a cave about seven miles away from the monastery, dedicating all his time to meditation, prayer, and asceticism. Later, at the monastery of the Theotokos Virgin Mary of the Syrians, he became a monastic priest under the name of Fr. Antonious. While Fr. Antonious was living as an hermit, Pope Cyril VI appoi ...

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Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria, Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria - Early life, Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria - Monastic life and educational service, Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria - Elevation to Pope of Alexandria, Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria - Exile under Sadat and Mubarak, Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria - Supervised worldwide growth of the Church, Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria - Commitment to Christian Unity, Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria - Writings and lectures

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Hikikomori - Typical patterns for hikikomori behavior. The lack of social contact and prolonged solitude has a profound effect on the mentality of the hikikomori, who gradually lose their social skills and the necessary social references and mores of the outside world. Anguished about their isolation and acutely self aware of their problem, they immerse themselves into the fantasy worlds of manga, television or computer games, which in turn become their only frame of reference. As time passes, the hikikomori, lac ...

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Hikikomori, Hikikomori - Causes, Hikikomori - Three contributing factors, Hikikomori - Social pressures to conform, Hikikomori - Withdrawal symptoms, Hikikomori - The phenomenon's effects on its victims, Hikikomori - Typical patterns for hikikomori behavior, Hikikomori - Violence and hikikomori, Hikikomori - Media and the hikikomori, Hikikomori - Reaction of the parents, Hikikomori - Treatment, Hikikomori - The Psychological argument on hikikomori, Hikikomori - The Socialization argument on hikikomori, Hikikomori - Worldwide, Hikikomori - Related Japanese topics, Hikikomori - Medical diagnoses for hikikomori behaviors

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Doom metal - Traditional doom. Slow, melancholic, riff-based metal influenced by Black Sabbath as well as the NWOBHM movement. Typical examples: Saint Vitus, Pentagram, Candlemass, Solitude Aeturnus, Solstice, Reverend Bizarre, Warning, Solomon Kane. A significant borderline case are (early) Cathedral, who are considered a traditional doom metal act by some and one of the originators of the modern death/doom sound by others. Four "waves" have so far been recognised in the history of traditional doom: the first on ...

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Doom metal, Doom metal - History of doom metal, Doom metal - Instrumentation, Doom metal - Stylistic divisions within doom metal, Doom metal - Traditional doom, Doom metal - Epic Doom, Doom metal - Death/doom, Doom metal - Funeral doom, Doom metal - Drone doom, Doom metal - Stoner doom, Doom metal - Atmospheric doom, Doom metal - Sludge doom, Doom metal - Industrial doom, Doom metal - List of bands

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Doom metal - Traditional doom. Slow, melancholic, riff-based metal influenced by Black Sabbath as well as the NWOBHM movement. Typical examples: Saint Vitus, Pentagram, Candlemass, Solitude Aeturnus, Solstice, Reverend Bizarre. Four "waves" have so far been recognised in the history of traditional doom: the first one started with the originators of the entire genre, the proto-doom bands Black Sabbath and Pentagram; the second one has been located in the mid-80s, especially in the work of Saint Vitus; the third on ...

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Doom metal, Doom metal - History of doom metal, Doom metal - Instrumentation, Doom metal - Stylistic divisions within doom metal, Doom metal - Traditional doom, Doom metal - Epic Doom, Doom metal - Death/doom, Doom metal - Funeral doom, Doom metal - Drone doom, Doom metal - Stoner doom, Doom metal - Atmospheric doom, Doom metal - Sludge doom, Doom metal - Industrial doom, Doom metal - List of bands

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Betty Smith's 1943 book A Tree Grows In Brooklyn, and the 1945 film based on it, are among the best-known early works about life in Brooklyn. In the late 1980s Brooklyn achieved a new cultural prominence with the films of Spike Lee, whose She's Gotta Have It and Do The Right Thing were visibly set and filmed in Brooklyn neighborhoods. Brooklyn-born author Jonathan Lethem has written several books about growing up in Brooklyn, including Motherless Brooklyn and The Fortress of Solitude. The movie Saturday Night Fe ...

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Brooklyn, Brooklyn - Geography, Brooklyn - History, Brooklyn - Six Dutch towns, Brooklyn - Toward a united City of Brooklyn, Brooklyn - Brooklyn as New York borough, Brooklyn - Neighborhoods of Brooklyn, Brooklyn - Demographics, Brooklyn - Law government and politics, Brooklyn - Sports and recreation, Brooklyn - Baseball, Brooklyn - Hockey, Brooklyn - Football, Brooklyn - Basketball, Brooklyn - Brooklyn in Art and Literature, Brooklyn - Symbols and nicknames, Brooklyn - Brooklyn sites and institutions

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Two lovers kissing amongst the scream of midnight, Two lovers missing the tranquillity of solitude. Getting a cab and travelling on buses, Reading the graffiti about slashed seat affairs: That's entertainment. - From "That's Entertainment" (1980) Saturdays kids play one arm bandits, They never win but that's not the point is it? - From "Saturday's Kids" (1979) I first felt a fist, and then a kick I could now smell their breath They smelt of pubs and Wormwood Scrubs And too many right wing meetings - From "Down in th ...

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The Jam, The Jam - History, The Jam - Formation 1972-1976, The Jam - Early recordings 1977, The Jam - All Mod Cons 1978, The Jam - Going Underground and into the 80s 1979-1981, The Jam - The Gift dissolution and epilogue 1981-present, The Jam - Quotations, The Jam - Personnel, The Jam - Discography, The Jam - Albums, The Jam - Singles, The Jam - US EP's, The Jam - Notable songs

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The man known as Major Martin still lies buried in the Cemetery of Solitude in Huelva. As Mincemeat became legend the question persisted: what was the identity of the man known as Major William Martin? It was only in 1996 that an amateur historian by the name of Roger Morgan was able to uncover evidence that "Martin" was a vagrant Welsh alcoholic named Glyndwr Michael who died of ingesting rat poison, although how this happened is unknown. The tombstone now bears Glyndwr Michael's real name, but he will be remembered as Major William Martin, who in de ...

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Operation Mincemeat, Operation Mincemeat - Planning for the deception, Operation Mincemeat - Precedents, Operation Mincemeat - Major William Martin Royal Marines, Operation Mincemeat - Execution, Operation Mincemeat - Mincemeat swallowed whole, Operation Mincemeat - Who was Major Martin?, Operation Mincemeat - HMS Dasher connection, Operation Mincemeat - Additional reading

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Evanescence was founded by Amy Lee and former lead guitarist Ben Moody. The two met at a youth camp in Arkansas, where Moody heard Lee playing I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That) by Meat Loaf on the piano. The pair discovered they shared a love of Jimi Hendrix and Björk, and they began to write songs together (the first was "Solitude" by Amy Lee, followed by "Understanding" by Ben Moody, "Give Unto Me" by Amy Lee, and the fourth song ever written by them was "My Immortal"). The songs were altered lyrically and musically by both Lee and Moody, which is the reason for having the names of both o ...

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Evanescence, Evanescence - History, Evanescence - Early Work, Evanescence - The Band's Success, Evanescence - Break Ups, Evanescence - Christian Music?, Evanescence - The Chronicles of Narnia, Evanescence - Comparisons, Evanescence - Current Projects, Evanescence - Band Members, Evanescence - Current Line-up, Evanescence - Past band members, Evanescence - Discography, Evanescence - EPs, Evanescence - Live album

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Somewhat earlier, La Rochefoucauld had taken his place in the salon of Madame de Sable, a member of the old Rambouillet côterie, and the founder of a kind of successor to it. It was known that he, like almost all his more prominent contemporaries, had spent his solitude in writing memoirs, while the special literary employment of the Sable salon was the fabrication of Sentences and Maximes. In 1662, however, more trouble than reputation, and not a little of both, was given to him by a surreptitious publication of his me ...

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François de La Rochefoucauld writer, François de La Rochefoucauld writer - Early life and military career, François de La Rochefoucauld writer - Salon participation, François de La Rochefoucauld writer - Literary works, François de La Rochefoucauld writer - Quotes from the Maxims

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Canada has a long and storied history of secessionist movements (see Secessionist movements of Canada). National unity has been a major issue in Canada since the forced union of the Canadas in 1840. The predominant and lingering issue concerning Canadian national unity has been the ongoing conflict between the French-speaking majority in Quebec and the English-speaking majority in the rest of Canada, popularly referred to as "two solitudes". Quebec's continued demands for recognition of its "distinct society" through special political ...

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Politics of Canada, Politics of Canada - Political information summary, Politics of Canada - Principal government officials, Politics of Canada - Executive branch, Politics of Canada - Legislative branch: Parliament, Politics of Canada - Political parties and elections, Politics of Canada - Judicial branch, Politics of Canada - Jurisdiction, Politics of Canada - Federal-provincial relations, Politics of Canada - Quebec and Canadian politics, Politics of Canada - National unity, Politics of Canada - Political conditions, Politics of Canada - Party election funding reform, Politics of Canada - Current issues

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Canada has a long and storied history of secessionist movements (see Secessionist movements of Canada). National unity has been a major issue in Canada since the forced union of the Canadas in 1840. The predominant and lingering issue concerning Canadian national unity has been the ongoing conflict between the French-speaking majority in Quebec and the English-speaking majority in the rest of Canada, popularly referred to as "two solitudes". Quebec's continued demands for recognition of its "distinct society" through special political ...

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Politics of Canada, Politics of Canada - Political information summary, Politics of Canada - Principal government officials*, Politics of Canada - Executive branch, Politics of Canada - Legislative branch: Parliament, Politics of Canada - Political parties and elections, Politics of Canada - Notes, Politics of Canada - Judicial branch, Politics of Canada - Jurisdiction, Politics of Canada - Federal-provincial relations, Politics of Canada - Quebec and Canadian politics, Politics of Canada - National unity, Politics of Canada - Political conditions, Politics of Canada - Party election funding reform, Politics of Canada - Current issues

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Winter sports, such as skiing and snowboarding, are available in the Wasatch Mountains east of Salt Lake City. Eight ski resorts lie within 50 miles (80 km) of the city. Alta, Brighton, Solitude, and Snowbird are located just southeast of the city; Deer Valley, The Canyons, and Park City are located to the east; and Sundance is located to the southeast in Utah County. The ski resorts see frequent storms which deposit light, dry snow due to a phenomenon called the lake effect, where storms amplified by the warm waters of the Great Salt Lake p ...

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Salt Lake City Utah, Salt Lake City Utah - History, Salt Lake City Utah - Geography and climate, Salt Lake City Utah - Cityscape, Salt Lake City Utah - Neighborhoods, Salt Lake City Utah - Climate, Salt Lake City Utah - Demographics, Salt Lake City Utah - Law and government, Salt Lake City Utah - Economy, Salt Lake City Utah - Education, Salt Lake City Utah - Culture, Salt Lake City Utah - Arts, Salt Lake City Utah - Events, Salt Lake City Utah - Media, Salt Lake City Utah - Sites of interest, Salt Lake City Utah - Sports and recreation, Salt Lake City Utah - Transportation, Salt Lake City Utah - Sister cities, Salt Lake City Utah - Notes

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Winter sports, such as skiing and snowboarding, are popular activities in the Wasatch Mountains east of Salt Lake City. Eight ski resorts lie within 50 miles (80 km) of the city. Alta, Brighton, Solitude, and Snowbird are located in Big and Little Cottonwood Canyons to the southeast, Deer Valley, The Canyons, and Park City Resort are located to the east, near the city of Park City in Summit County, and Sundance is located to the southeast in Utah County. The ski resorts see frequent storms that deposit light, dry snow due to a phenomenon kno ...

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Salt Lake City Utah, Salt Lake City Utah - History, Salt Lake City Utah - Geography, Salt Lake City Utah - Cityscape, Salt Lake City Utah - Neighborhoods, Salt Lake City Utah - Climate, Salt Lake City Utah - Demographics, Salt Lake City Utah - Economy, Salt Lake City Utah - Law and government, Salt Lake City Utah - Education, Salt Lake City Utah - Culture, Salt Lake City Utah - Arts, Salt Lake City Utah - Events, Salt Lake City Utah - Media, Salt Lake City Utah - Sites of interest, Salt Lake City Utah - Sports and recreation, Salt Lake City Utah - Transportation, Salt Lake City Utah - Sister cities, Salt Lake City Utah - Notes

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For a few years after the band split apart, Axl retreated into solitude. After the acoustic/ballad album was cancelled, he began work on another album without Slash. In 1997, Axl hired guitarist Robin Finck of Nine Inch Nails. In 2000, the guitarist Buckethead joined the band (he would leave in 2004) along with drummer Brian Mantia. In 2002, Richard Fortus joined on guitar and Dizzy Reed returned to the keyboards yet again. Within the next few years Axl would record, re-record, delete, edit, hire, fire, and do just about everything wi ...

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Axl Rose, Axl Rose - Childhood, Axl Rose - Los Angeles, Axl Rose - Living on the edge, Axl Rose - Decline of Guns N' Roses, Axl Rose - The enigmatic Axl Rose, Axl Rose - Chinese Democracy, Axl Rose - Trivia

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Sila (Sanskrit) [from the verbal root sil to serve, practice]

Moral fortitude, ethical steadiness, one of the Buddhist paramitas. Described as "the key of Harmony in word and act, the key that counterbalances the cause and the effect, and leaves no further room for Karmic action" (VS 47). The Mahayana Sraddhotpada Sastra says of practicing sila: "Lay disciples, having families, should abstain from killing, stealing, adultery, lying, duplicity, slander, frivolous talk, covetousness, malice, currying favor, and false doctrines. Unmarried disciples should, in order to avoid hindrances, retire from the turmoil of worldly life and, abiding in solitude, should practise those ways which lead to quietness and moderation and contentment. . . . They should endeavor by their conduct to avoid all disapproval and blame, and by their example incite others to forsake evil and practise the good." {from FSO p. 45}

(See also: Sila, Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary)

Aranyaka (Sanskrit) (from aranya forest-like from aranya wilderness, forest)

Forest-born; a hermit or holy man who dwells in the forest during the process of becoming a genuine spiritual yogi. Aranyakas (plural) are a class of Vedic treatises of a mystical nature attached to the Brahmanas and closely associated with the Upanishads. They were called such either because they were written in the solitude of the wilderness or because they were intended for study and contemplation by those who had retired from the world to lead the life of spiritual recluses. The Aranyakas are ritualistic, treating of special ceremonies either omitted or dealt with only in part in the Brahmanas, and hence are considered to be supplemental to the latter.

Only four Aranyakas are presently known to exist: the Aitareya (Rig-vedic) forming part of the Aitareya-Brahmana; the Kausitaki (Rig-vedic) whose third and final chapter is the Kanusitaki Upanishad; the Taittiriya, of ten books, belonging to the Yajur-Veda; and the Brihad (Yajur-Veda) which forms a part of the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad attached to the Satapatha-Brahmana.

(See also: Aranyaka, Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary, Occultism, Occultism Dictionary)