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He's fine. He's fine, ' he kept saying as the baby became ever more cranky and bewildered; screaming in terror if she tried to put him down.' Why should he be unhappy?' she wanted to say. 'He has had so few days in this world. Why should the unhappiness start here?Anne Enright
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Up and down' is Irish for anything at all--from crying into the dishes to full-blown psychosis. Though, now that I think about, a psychotic is more usually 'not quite herself'.Anne Enright