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Lost in a Good Book has been positively received by critics.SF Site compared Fforde to both Douglas Adams and Terry Pratchett and called Lost in a Good Book "a light-hearted and delightful farce", [3] while Salon called it "as sweet and light as the promise of spring".
Rabbi Harold S. Kushner in his book When Bad Things Happen to Good People describes schadenfreude as a universal, even wholesome reaction that cannot be helped. "There is a German psychological term, Schadenfreude, which refers to the embarrassing reaction of relief we feel when something bad happens to someone else instead of to us." He gives ...
Slovene – Ob svetem Nikoli is a wordplay that literally means "on St. Nicholas' feast day". The word nikoli, when stressed on the second syllable, means "never", when stressed on the first it is the locative case of Nikola, i.e. Nicholas; Spanish – cuando las vacas vuelen ("when cows fly") or cuando los chanchos vuelen ("when pigs fly ...
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Aaron Lewis in the song "Lost and Lonely" sings about "I'm an albatross hanging around my own neck". Aesop Rock references the albatross on the song "Dorks" The band Alter Bridge references wearing an albatross around one's neck in the song "Wouldn't You Rather" from the album Walk the Sky. The band Badflower references the albatross in the ...
Saudade is a word in Portuguese and Galician that claims no direct translation in English. However, a close translation in English would be "desiderium." Desiderium is defined as an ardent desire or longing, especially a feeling of loss or grief for something lost. Desiderium comes from the word desiderare, meaning to long for.
In her revealing new memoir, "Something Lost, Something Gained: Reflections on Life, Love, and Liberty" (to be published September 17 by Simon & Schuster), former first lady, senator and secretary ...
At the center of the sophomore crisis is the anxiety over one's future, i.e. how to lead one's life and how to best develop and employ one's abilities. [ 2 ] [ 43 ] [ 44 ] Existential crisis often specifically affect high achievers who fear that they do not reach their highest potential since they lack a secure plan for the future.