Shane O'Mara

Shane O'Mara

“Old man yells at cloud”: melancholy, world-weary, with a little self-serving bellicosity

The emotion we have now, and don't realise it

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Shane O'Mara
Aug 29, 2023
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“Old man yells at cloud”

We need to appropriate a word from the German language1, a language known for its wonderful compound words: to take a well-known one, ‘schadenfreude’ is such a great word that …

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