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vemödalen 25 Aug 2013 | 08:57 pm
n. the frustration of photographing something amazing when thousands of identical photos already exist—the same sunset, the same waterfall, the same curve of a hip, the same closeup of an eye—which ca...
vellichor 3 Aug 2013 | 08:26 pm
n. the strange wistfulness of used bookstores, which are somehow infused with the passage of time—filled with thousands of old books you’ll never have time to read, each of which is itself locked in i...
midsummer 12 Jul 2013 | 08:28 pm
n. a feast celebrated on the day of your 26th birthday, which marks the point at which your youth finally expires as a valid excuse—when you must begin harvesting your crops, even if they’ve barely ta...
dead reckoning 9 Jul 2013 | 11:50 pm
n. to find yourself bothered by someone’s death more than you would have expected, as if you had assumed they would always be part of the landscape, like a lighthouse you could pass by for years until...
nighthawk 28 Jun 2013 | 02:03 am
n. a recurring thought that only seems to strike you late at night—an overdue task, a nagging guilt, a looming and shapeless future—that pecks at the back of your mind while you try to sleep, only to ...
Sonder [2:39] from John Koenig’s The Dictionary of Obscure... 12 Jun 2013 | 03:13 am
Sonder [2:39] from John Koenig’s The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows sonder - n. the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own… When I’m not writing dicti...
Sonder [2:39] from John Koenig’s The Dictionary of Obscure... 12 Jun 2013 | 03:13 am
Sonder [2:39] from John Koenig’s The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows sonder - n. the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own… When I’m not writing dicti...
pâro 7 Jun 2013 | 11:26 pm
n. the feeling that no matter what you do is always somehow wrong—that any attempt to make your way comfortably through the world will only end up crossing some invisible taboo—as if there’s some obvi...
Gnossienne #3by reader Karin Josephine gnossienne - n. a moment... 4 Jun 2013 | 04:12 am
Gnossienne #3 by reader Karin Josephine gnossienne - n. a moment of awareness that someone you’ve known for years still has a private and mysterious inner life, and somewhere in the hallways of their...
Rückkehrunruhe 1 Jun 2013 | 10:27 am
n. the feeling of returning home after an immersive trip only to find it fading rapidly from your awareness—to the extent you have to keep reminding yourself that it happened at all, even though it fe...
