Books of all kinds reaffirm what life is: a cycle of joy and sorrow, over and over.
This perpetual cycle of loss, termed chronic sorrow, can lead not only to a decline in self-esteem, but eventually to alterations in self-identity [ 38, 39].
Portrait of Ruins development cycle took roughly the same amount of time as Dawn of Sorrow did.
But cycles of hurt and sorrow are handed down from one generation to the next, marked by unresolved histories, endless power struggles, competing machismos, where nothing is transparent and, like coffee grounds, everything needs to be interpreted, misinterpreted, in a land that is less solid than liquid, still flowing, still unsettled.
If in the Rachmaninoff sets she was a sybil, standing monumentally proud in her scarlet robe to pronounce the truth of sorrow, suffering and bitterness, in Mussorgsky's "Nursery" cycle she became nanny and child.
Simone Young, who recently finished leading two complete "Ring" cycles at the Hamburg State Opera, sees the microlude as an encapsulation of the scene, with Wotan's song of sorrow interrupted by the snapping figure associated with Fricka's complaint.
The path of sorrow upon sorrow.
