February 2012
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January 2012
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A Place to Lay My Heart →
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By ELISABETH EAVES NY Times Published: January 5, 2012
WHEN I met Joe, he told me he was trying to decide where to live. At the time, he lived in — well, that was hard to say.
He was from New Hampshire, but after stints in various United States cities, he had moved to Paris, where he had been based for 10 years.
But “based” was a loose term. There had been six months in...
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Torschlusspanik
German
Literally translated as ‘gate closing panic’, referring to the fear of receding opportunities as one ages.
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July 2011
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Waldeinsamkeit
German
Noun
The feeling of being alone in the woods.
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Toska
Russian
Noun
Melancholia, misery.
“No single word in English renders all the shades of toska. At its deepest and most painful, it is a sensation of great spiritual anguish, often without any specific cause. At less morbid levels it is a dull ache of the soul, a longing with nothing to long for… At the lowest level it grades into ennui, boredom.”
-Vladmir Nabakov
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Ailurophile
noun
A cat lover.
The rise of the internet has manifested the glorification of ailurophiles everywhere.
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Kokorokokoniarazu
Japanese
Here in body but not in spirit.