For your Hump Day reading pleasure, The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows.

[EFerrari]

aimonomia

n. fear that learning the name of something—a bird, a constellation, an attractive stranger—will somehow ruin it, transforming a lucky discovery into a conceptual husk pinned in a glass case, which leaves one less mystery to flutter around your head, trying to get in.


the unsharp mask

n. the tendency for online social networks to magnify unexpected personality traits of people you know, a side effect of compressing raw persona into a low-res digital format which can randomly brighten outer glow, sharpen comic edges, darken shadows or add motion blur to everyday life, much like the polarizing lens filters of alcohol, politics or youth.

laughtershock

n. an embarrassing memory from middle school that slips back into your head from out of nowhere, a fault line in the crust of passing years—whose ever-thickening strata warp and buckle between the pressures of this week and a mantle of forgotten things two thousand miles deep—which is part of a theory on the evolution of the self known as cafeteria plate tectonics.

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