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the dictionary of obscure sorrows Home Browse – TOC – Chapters – Concepts – Tags – All Words About – The Book – The Author Press Buy the Book THE DICTIONARY OF OBSCURE SORROWS 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. 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." —Steven Wright Watch Video Featured Word AFTERSOME Chapter: Boats Against the Current | Concept: Tichloch | Tags: Awe-Fascination Possibility-Opportunity Intuition-Insight AFTERSOME adj. astonished to think back on the bizarre sequence of accidents that brought you to where you are today—as if you’d spent years bouncing down a Plinko pegboard, passing through a million harmless decision points, any one of which might’ve changed everything—which makes your long and winding path feel fated from the start, yet so unlikely as to be virtually impossible. Swedish eftersom, because. Featured Chapter: Between Living and Dreaming KAIROSCLEROSIS FUNKENZWANGSVORSTELLUNG FUNKENZWANG-SVORSTELLUNG LOOSELEFT TRUMSPRINGA SCABULOUS MERRENNESS Featured Concept: Silience Ballagàrraidh NE’ER-BE-GONE FUNKENZWANGSVORSTELLUNG FUNKENZWANG-SVORSTELLUNG ZIELSCHMERZ FORECLEARING GHOUGH RINGLORN Featured Tag: Connection-Relation MAL DE COUCOU SUENTE ZVERISM ECURY HICKERING CLOCKWISE RANDOM Words HUBILANCE FUTURE-TENSE WALDOSIA FUNKENZWANGSVORSTELLUNG FUNKENZWANG-SVORSTELLUNG HEMEISIS MAUGRY HICKERING ANTIOPHOBIA AFFOGATIA © John Koenig. All rights reserved. Browse IndexChaptersConceptsTagsAll Words The Book about The BookBuy the Book on Amazon follow us Watch on youtubeFollow on TwitterFollow on InstagramVisit On FaceBookEmail The Author Site Credits Design by prompt digitalImage Generation by dall-e 2Prompt Support by GPT-4Built on Webflow Prompt Digital Inc is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to amazon.com. This site may contain affiliate links; if you buy something through one of those links, we might get a small commission, without any extra cost to you.