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Tag: Curious
23 Emotions people feel, but can’t explain
- Sonder: The realization that each passerby has a life as vivid and complex as your own.
- Opia: The ambiguous intensity of Looking someone in the eye, which can feel simultaneously invasive and vulnerable.
- Monachopsis: The subtle but persistent feeling of being out of place.
- Énouement: The bittersweetness of having arrived in the future, seeing how things turn out, but not being able to tell your past self.
- Vellichor: The strange wistfulness of used bookshops.
- Rubatosis: The unsettling awareness of your own heartbeat.
- Kenopsia: The eerie, forlorn atmosphere of a place that is usually bustling with people but is now abandoned and quiet.
- Mauerbauertraurigkeit: The inexplicable urge to push people away, even close friends who you really like.
- Jouska: A hypothetical conversation that you compulsively play out in your head.
- Chrysalism: The amniotic tranquility of being indoors during a thunderstorm.
- Vemödalen: The frustration of photographic something amazing when thousands of identical photos already exist.
- Anecdoche: A conversation in which everyone is talking, but nobody is listening
- Ellipsism: A sadness that you’ll never be able to know how history will turn out.
- Kuebiko: A state of exhaustion inspired by acts of senseless violence.
- Lachesism: The desire to be struck by disaster – to survive a plane crash, or to lose everything in a fire.
- Exulansis: The tendency to give up trying to talk about an experience because people are unable to relate to it.
- Adronitis: Frustration with how long it takes to get to know someone.
- Rückkehrunruhe: The feeling of returning home after an immersive trip only to find it fading rapidly from your awareness.
- Nodus Tollens: The realization that the plot of your life doesn’t make sense to you anymore.
- Onism: The frustration of being stuck in just one body, that inhabits only one place at a time.
- Liberosis: The desire to care less about things.
- Altschmerz: Weariness with the same old issues that you’ve always had – the same boring flaws and anxieties that you’ve been gnawing on for years.
- Occhiolism: The awareness of the smallness of your perspective.
The Amorphophallus titanum also known as the ‘corpse flower’ is the largest flower in the world and smells like rotting flesh.
Oh, this brings back memories. I saw one of these in full bloom at Kew Gardens (London), a good several years ago. The smell wasn’t as bad as I had imagined it would be, but then again I attended after the third day, so I suppose the scent had worn off somewhat. I have a photograph I took of it, but I’m not sure where that is right now (in a box somewhere). If I ever find it again, I’ll scan it and post it up. This is a lovely image.
Man Finds His Doppelganger at Philadelphia Museum of Art read the story here
It’s as if the man literally stepped out of the painting and dressed up in today’s clothing. The resemblance is quite uncanny. I wonder if I have a doppelganger anywhere…
Dancer Rose Chan writhes in a snake “costume” that has stirred up a furor in Penang, Malaya. Her costume is mostly grease paint striped over her body, which is clothed only in a Bikini bathing suit. The Malayan government has been asked to ban her costume and sexy dance, which Rose claims is “art” copied from dances in U.S. movies. She’s five feet, five inches tall and measures 36-24-36½.
—The Frederick Post, November 7, 1955
I love the photograph and the curiosity factor of the story behind it. To think that this costume would have raised a furore seems rather quaint and old-fashioned, especially by today’s standards. Then again, we are talking about the 1950s, I suppose, and different cultures do have different views. Personally, however, I don’t see what all the fuss is about.
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