noonday

The song of submission rang out over the market where the Mussalmans had already found a quiet alley and thrown down their mats for noonday prayers.

Vatican officials said about 70,000 people filled St. Peter’s Square for Francis’ noonday speech and blessing.

Philosophers lamented, as Bertrand Russell wrote, that “all the labours of the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noonday brightness of human genius, are destined to extinction in the vast death of the solar system, and that the whole temple of Man’s achievement must inevitably be buried beneath the debris of a universe in ruins.”

The noonday sun sweeps overhead.

“There were all of these science books about bipolar illness and there were memoirs by people who had written about their illness, but there was no one who had been able to stitch all of it together in the way that she did,” said the writer Andrew Solomon, whose own approach to writing about his depression, in “The Noonday Demon,” was influenced by Jamison’s.