Another Lover, Same Story

So many definitions of love, such a vast array of wildly disparate  viewpoints of an emotion; yet people seem to have stunningly similar, deeply intimate perspectives on the emotion that feeds on intimacy.

I have fallen in love again, for perhaps the thousandth time, but I won’t share all the details here, just a few.  I’ll leave you guessing and wondering how I could have allowed it to happen, how I could pin so many hopes on what might be a brief flicker, a muffled explosion.

This time, the object of my love is The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, a web series that defines a new word (a neologism) for a “strangely powerful emotion.”  Some of the terms describe what I know to be real emotions, real fears and disappointments.  I love that someone else has conceived of the need for some of these words.

And then, yet another seduction, again by words [albeit foreign language words] that cannot be translated into a single word, or even a simple phrase, in English.  This time, the object of my desire is Lost in Translation: An Illustrated Catalog of Beautiful Untranslatable Words from Around the World.

About John Swinburn

"Love not what you are but what you may become."― Miguel de Cervantes
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