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     David Lees (David_lees) Username: David_lees Registered: 12-2011 Posted From: 176.248.60.181 |
http://www.dictionaryofobscuresorrows.com/ vellichor n. the strange wistfulness of used bookstores, which are somehow infused with the passage of time—filled with thousands of old books you’ll never have time to read, each of which is itself locked in its own era, bound and dated and papered over like an old room the author abandoned years ago, a hidden annex littered with thoughts left just as they were on the day they were captured. | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 81.156.5.180 |
Lovely definition. Thanks. Do ebooks have an equivalent to 'vellichor', I wonder? | ||
| David Lees (David_lees) Username: David_lees Registered: 12-2011 Posted From: 176.248.60.181 |
I occasionally have wonderful dreams where I'm in a used bookshop - a proper, cramped, chaotic one with books piled up everywhere - and every single volume I take off a shelf and look at is some fascinating old fantasy or horror novel I'd never heard of before and absolutely have to buy. |