September 2011
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“Did you ever walk into a room and forget why you walked in? I think that is how...”
– Sue Murphy
Untranslatable Foreign Language Words
Toska – Russian
This word can be described best in the words of Vladimir Nabokov: “No single word in English renders all the shades of toska. At its deepest and most painful, it is a sensation of great spiritual anguish, often without any specific cause. At less morbid levels it is a dull ache of the soul, a longing with nothing to long for, a sick pining, a vague restlessness, mental...
“The great advantage of plagiarism as a literary method is that it removes the...”
– Stewart Home , “None Dare Call It Nihilism”
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