January 2010
18 posts
Sehnsucht
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Sehnsucht (phonetically in English, ‘zane-schooot’. Well, that’s the best I can give you!) is one of those German words that it is almost impossible to translate adequately. Along with Weltschmerz (world weariness or taedium vitae), the stage director and author Georg Tabori called Sehnsucht one of those quasi-mystical terms in German for which there is no...
This Will Be the First and Last Rant
Oh, I get it. Tumblr’s primarily for satisfying our need for cultural capital accumulation and projection. This whole reblogging business is much too easy… and slightly productive—or not. Is that what makes it such a strangely satisfying activity? Amazing.
In other news: I met the most incredible person today. She strode in with such confidence and purpose that I couldn’t...
