The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

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  Lutalica: The Part of Your Identity That Doesn't Fit Into Categories - Duration: 2 minutes, 42 seconds.

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  We all want to belong to something. But part of you is still rattling around inside these categories and labels that could never do you justice.
  
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  Dès Vu: The Awareness That This Will Become A Memory - Duration: 3 minutes, 23 seconds.

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  The Dictionary returns! Chapter 2 begins now. Tune in next week.
  
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  The story of humanity is a move from the countryside to the big city. But it’s happened so fast that a part of you still remembers Eden. That longs to leave your car idling in traffic, and flee int...

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  Koinophobia: The Fear that You've Lived an Ordinary Life - Duration: 2 minutes, 56 seconds.

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  While you're in it, life seems epic. Fiery, tenuous, and unpredictable. But once you have some distance from it, everything seems to shrink, until it's almost out of focus. So you begin scanning yo...

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  Klexos: The Art of Dwelling on the Past - Duration: 3 minutes, 12 seconds.

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  It's hard not to look at the ground as you walk. To set your sights low, and keep the world spinning, and try to stay grounded wherever you are. But every so often you remember to look up, and imag...

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  Kenopsia: The Eeriness of Places Left Behind - Duration: 3 minutes, 12 seconds.

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  kenopsia, n. the eerie, forlorn atmosphere of a place that’s usually bustling with people but is now abandoned and quiet—a school hallway in the evening, an unlit office on a weekend, vacant fairgr...

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  The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows by John Koenig - Duration: 76 seconds.

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  THE DICTIONARY OF OBSCURE SORROWS is a web-series about creating our own meaning. Each episode explores newly invented words for strangely powerful emotions, so we can better define what it feels l...

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