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bridgeenjoyer sh.itjust.works bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2025-06-06
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https://ia803206.us.archive.org/26/items/the-dictionary-of-obscure-sorrows/The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows.pdf

Never have I felt so understood. I am so glad/sad I know of this now.

Excerpt:

adomania

n. the sense that the future is arriving ahead of schedule, that all those years
with fantastical names like '2013' are bursting from their hypothetical cages
into the arena of the present, furiously bucking the grip of your expectations
while you lean and slip in your saddle, one hand reaching for reins, the other
waving up high like a schoolkid who finally knows the answer to the question

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tal lemmy.today tal@lemmy.today
Joined: 2023-10-04
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the future is arriving ahead of schedule, that all those years
with fantastical names like '2013' are bursting from their hypothetical cages
into the arena of the present, furiously bucking the grip of your expectations
while you lean and slip in your saddle, one hand reaching for reins

1000009407

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Scipitie lemmy.dbzer0.com Scipitie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2023-12-25
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You should also know that the original author invented them, that's the reason why they are obscure.

At least the few I checked resulted in:

(X) was coined by Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows creator John Koenig in 2012.[1][2]

E.g. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/chrysalism

Fun read though :)

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bridgeenjoyer sh.itjust.works bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2025-06-06
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You should also know that the original author invented them, that's the reason why they are obscure. At least the few I checked resulted in: (X) was coined by Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows creator John Koenig in 2012.[1][2] E.g. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/chrysalism Fun read though :)

Great! Yes, this was just the most accessible copy I found.

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renegadespork lemmy.jelliefrontier.net renegadespork@lemmy.jelliefrontier.net
Joined: 2024-12-03
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ambedo

n. a kind of melancholic trance in which you become completely absorbed in vivid sensory details—raindrops skittering down a window, tall trees leaning in the wind, clouds of cream swirling in your coffee—which leads to a dawning awareness of the haunting fragility of life, a mood whose only known cure is the vuvuzela.

That last sentence lol

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bridgeenjoyer sh.itjust.works bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2025-06-06
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ambedo n. a kind of melancholic trance in which you become completely absorbed in vivid sensory details—raindrops skittering down a window, tall trees leaning in the wind, clouds of cream swirling in your coffee—which leads to a dawning awareness of the haunting fragility of life, a mood whose only known cure is the vuvuzela. That last sentence lol

How true! BWAAAAPP

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