Some new words to describe emotions. :) Enjoy!
Trumspringa
n. the temptation to step off your career track and become a
shepherd in the mountains, following your flock between pastures with a
sheepdog and a rifle, watching storms at dusk from the doorway of a small
cabin, just the kind of hypnotic diversion that allows your thoughts to make a
break for it and wander back to their cubicles in the city.
Semaphorism
n. a conversational hint that you have something personal to
say on the subject but don’t go any further—an emphatic nod, a half-told
anecdote, an enigmatic ‘I know the feeling'—which you place into conversations
like those little flags that warn diggers of something buried underground:
maybe a cable that secretly powers your house, maybe a fiberoptic link to some
foreign country.
Lalalalia
n. the realization while talking to yourself that someone
else is within earshot, which leads you to crossfade into mumbled singing, an
auditory sleight of hand that distracts the audience from the exposed platform
under your persona while you prepare to saw your confidence in half.
Swish Fulfillment
n. the feeling of delicate luck after casually tossing
something across the room and hitting your target so crisply and perfectly that
you feel no desire to even attempt another shot, which is a more compelling
argument for the concept of monogamous love than anything sung to a guitar.
Flashover
n. the moment a conversation becomes real and alive, which
occurs when a spark of trust shorts out the delicate circuits you keep
insulated under layers of irony, momentarily grounding the static emotional
charge you’ve built up through decades of friction with the world.
Funkenzwangsvorstellung
n. the instinctive trance of a campfire in the dark,
spending hours roasting and watching as it settles and sinks into the ground
like a heap of shipwrecks whose sailors raise their flickering sails trying to
signal that the prevailing winds of your life are about to shift, that the edge
of the Earth is real and looming just a few years ahead, and that your
marshmallow is on fire.
No comments:
Post a Comment