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The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows<br>The word sadness originally meant fullness," to be filled to the brim with some intensity of experience. It's not about despair, or distraction, or controlling how you're supposed to feel, it's about awareness. Setting the focus to infinity and taking it all in, joy and grief all at once; feeling the world as it is, the word as it could be. The unknown and the unknowable, closeness and distance and trust, and the passage of time. And all the others around you who are each going through the same thing.<br>The Romans called it lacrimae rerum, the "tears of things." We call them obscure sorrows.
"I read the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything."<br>—Steven Wright
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Énouement
Chapter:<br>Boats Against the Current
Concept:<br>Olēka
Tags:<br>Beginnings-Endings
Time-Memory
Identity-Personality
Énouement<br>n.<br>the bittersweetness of having arrived here in the future, finally learning the answers to how things turned out but being unable to tell your past self.<br>French énouer, to pluck defective bits from a stretch of cloth + dénouement, the final part of a story, in which all the threads of the plot are drawn together and everything is explained. Pronounced “ey-noo-mahn.”
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