{ "1": { "id": 2, "title": "adomania", "non_latin_title": "adomania", "author": "John Koenig", "authorPicture": "https:\/\/ideasofthevagabond.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/10\/john-koenig.jpg", "definition": "the sense that the future is arriving ahead of schedule, that all those years with fantastical names like \u20182013\u2019 are bursting from their hypothetical cages into the arena of the present, furiously bucking the grip of your expectations while you lean and slip in your saddle, one hand reaching for reins, the other waving up high like a schoolkid who finally knows the answer to the question.", "speech": "noun", "video": null, "entry": 1, "hasQuotes": 0 }, "2": { "id": 5, "title": "adronitis", "non_latin_title": "adronitis", "author": "John Koenig", "authorPicture": "https:\/\/ideasofthevagabond.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/10\/john-koenig.jpg", "definition": "frustration with how long it takes to get to know someone\u2014spending the first few weeks chatting in their psychological entryway, with each subsequent conversation like entering a different anteroom, each a little closer to the center of the house\u2014wishing instead that you could start there and work your way out, exchanging your deepest secrets first, before easing into casualness, until you\u2019ve built up enough mystery over the years to ask them where they\u2019re from, and what they do for a living.", "speech": "noun", "video": null, "entry": 2, "hasQuotes": 0 }, "3": { "id": 6, "title": "aimonomia", "non_latin_title": "aimonomia", "author": "John Koenig", "authorPicture": "https:\/\/ideasofthevagabond.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/10\/john-koenig.jpg", "definition": "fear that learning the name of something\u2014a bird, a constellation, an attractive stranger\u2014will 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.", "speech": "noun", "video": null, "entry": 3, "hasQuotes": 0 }, "4": { "id": 7, "title": "alazia", "non_latin_title": "alazia", "author": "John Koenig", "authorPicture": "https:\/\/ideasofthevagabond.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/10\/john-koenig.jpg", "definition": "the fear that you're no longer able to change", "speech": "noun", "video": "https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WBoZzArmtNA", "entry": 4, "hasQuotes": 1 }, "5": { "id": 8, "title": "altschmerz", "non_latin_title": "altschmerz", "author": "John Koenig", "authorPicture": "https:\/\/ideasofthevagabond.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/10\/john-koenig.jpg", "definition": "weariness with the same old issues that you\u2019ve always had\u2014the same boring flaws and anxieties you\u2019ve been gnawing on for years, which leaves them soggy and tasteless and inert, with nothing interesting left to think about, nothing left to do but spit them out and wander off to the backyard, ready to dig up some fresher pain you might have buried long ago.", "speech": "noun", "video": null, "entry": 5, "hasQuotes": 0 }, "6": { "id": 9, "title": "ambedo", "non_latin_title": "ambedo", "author": "John Koenig", "authorPicture": "https:\/\/ideasofthevagabond.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/10\/john-koenig.jpg", "definition": "a kind of melancholic trance in which you become completely absorbed in vivid sensory details\u2014raindrops skittering down a window, tall trees leaning in the wind, clouds of cream swirling in your coffee\u2014which leads to a dawning awareness of the haunting fragility of life, a mood whose only known cure is the vuvuzela.", "speech": "noun", "video": "https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=osrvO9Q3PtI", "entry": 6, "hasQuotes": 0 }, "7": { "id": 10, "title": "ameneurosis", "non_latin_title": "ameneurosis", "author": "John Koenig", "authorPicture": "https:\/\/ideasofthevagabond.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/10\/john-koenig.jpg", "definition": "the half-forlorn, half-escapist ache of a train whistle calling in the distance at night.", "speech": "noun", "video": null, "entry": 7, "hasQuotes": 0 }, "8": { "id": 11, "title": "anchorage", "non_latin_title": "anchorage", "author": "John Koenig", "authorPicture": "https:\/\/ideasofthevagabond.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/10\/john-koenig.jpg", "definition": "the desire to hold on to time as it passes, like trying to keep your grip on a rock in the middle of a river, feeling the weight of the current against your chest while your elders float on downstream, calling over the roar of the rapids, \u201cJust let go\u2014it\u2019s okay\u2014let go.\u201d", "speech": "noun", "video": null, "entry": 8, "hasQuotes": 0 }, "9": { "id": 12, "title": "anecdoche", "non_latin_title": "anecdoche", "author": "John Koenig", "authorPicture": "https:\/\/ideasofthevagabond.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/10\/john-koenig.jpg", "definition": "a conversation in which everyone is talking but nobody is listening, simply overlaying disconnected words like a game of Scrabble, with each player borrowing bits of other anecdotes as a way to increase their own score, until we all run out of things to say.", "speech": "noun", "video": null, "entry": 9, "hasQuotes": 0 }, "10": { "id": 13, "title": "anemoia", "non_latin_title": "anemoia", "author": "John Koenig", "authorPicture": "https:\/\/ideasofthevagabond.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/10\/john-koenig.jpg", "definition": "nostalgia for a time you\u2019ve never known", "speech": "noun", "video": "https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wH6ZCIRjI14", "entry": 10, "hasQuotes": 0 }, "11": { "id": 14, "title": "antematter", "non_latin_title": "antematter", "author": "John Koenig", "authorPicture": "https:\/\/ideasofthevagabond.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/10\/john-koenig.jpg", "definition": "the dream versions of things in your life, which appear totally foreign but are still somehow yours\u2014your anteschool, your antefriends, your antehome\u2014all part of a parallel world whose gravitational pull raises your life\u2019s emotional stakes, increasing the chances you\u2019ll end up betting everything you have.", "speech": "noun", "video": null, "entry": 11, "hasQuotes": 0 }, "12": { "id": 15, "title": "anthrodynia", "non_latin_title": "anthrodynia", "author": "John Koenig", "authorPicture": "https:\/\/ideasofthevagabond.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/10\/john-koenig.jpg", "definition": "a state of exhaustion with how shitty people can be to each other, typically causing a countervailing sense of affection for things that are sincere but not judgmental, are unabashedly joyful, or just are.", "speech": "noun", "video": null, "entry": 12, "hasQuotes": 0 }, "13": { "id": 18, "title": "apomakrysmenophobia", "non_latin_title": "apomakrysmenophobia", "author": "John Koenig", "authorPicture": "https:\/\/ideasofthevagabond.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/10\/john-koenig.jpg", "definition": "fear that your connections with people are ultimately shallow, that although your relationships feel congenial at the time, an audit of your life would produce an emotional safety deposit box of low-interest holdings and uninvested windfall profits, which will indicate you were never really at risk of joy, sacrifice or loss.", "speech": "noun", "video": null, "entry": 13, "hasQuotes": 0 }, "14": { "id": 19, "title": "astrophe", "non_latin_title": "astrophe", "author": "John Koenig", "authorPicture": "https:\/\/ideasofthevagabond.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/10\/john-koenig.jpg", "definition": "the feeling of being stuck on earth", "speech": "noun", "video": "https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=B1SkepihYLE", "entry": 14, "hasQuotes": 1 }, "15": { "id": 20, "title": "avenoir", "non_latin_title": "avenoir", "author": "John Koenig", "authorPicture": "https:\/\/ideasofthevagabond.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/10\/john-koenig.jpg", "definition": "the desire that memory could flow backward", "speech": "noun", "video": "https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=oKOW30gSMuE", "entry": 15, "hasQuotes": 0 }, "16": { "id": 21, "title": "backmasking", "non_latin_title": "backmasking", "author": "John Koenig", "authorPicture": "https:\/\/ideasofthevagabond.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/10\/john-koenig.jpg", "definition": "the instinctive tendency to see someone as you knew them in their youth, a burned-in image of grass-stained knees, graffitied backpacks or handfuls of birthday cake superimposed on an adult with a degree, an illusion formed when someone opens the door to your emotional darkroom while the memory is still developing.", "speech": "noun", "video": null, "entry": 16, "hasQuotes": 0 }, "17": { "id": 22, "title": "ballag\u00e0rraidh", "non_latin_title": "ballagarraidh", "author": "John Koenig", "authorPicture": "https:\/\/ideasofthevagabond.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/10\/john-koenig.jpg", "definition": "the awareness that you are not at home in the wilderness", "speech": "noun", "video": "https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cN7sZ2wMg_Q", "entry": 17, "hasQuotes": 1 }, "18": { "id": 23, "title": "catoptric tristesse", "non_latin_title": "catoptric_tristesse", "author": "John Koenig", "authorPicture": "https:\/\/ideasofthevagabond.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/10\/john-koenig.jpg", "definition": "the sadness that you\u2019ll never really know what other people think of you, whether good, bad or if at all\u2014that although we reflect on each other with the sharpness of a mirror, the true picture of how we\u2019re coming off somehow reaches us softened and distorted, as if each mirror was preoccupied with twisting around, desperately trying to look itself in the eye.", "speech": "noun", "video": null, "entry": 18, "hasQuotes": 0 }, "19": { "id": 24, "title": "chrysalism", "non_latin_title": "chrysalism", "author": "John Koenig", "authorPicture": "https:\/\/ideasofthevagabond.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/10\/john-koenig.jpg", "definition": "the amniotic tranquility of being indoors during a thunderstorm, listening to waves of rain pattering against the roof like an argument upstairs, whose muffled words are unintelligible but whose crackling release of built-up tension you understand perfectly.", "speech": "noun", "video": null, "entry": 19, "hasQuotes": 0 }, "20": { "id": 25, "title": "contact high-five", "non_latin_title": "contact_high-five", "author": "John Koenig", "authorPicture": "https:\/\/ideasofthevagabond.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/10\/john-koenig.jpg", "definition": "an innocuous touch by someone just doing their job\u2014a barber, yoga instructor or friendly waitress\u2014that you enjoy more than you\u2019d like to admit, a feeling of connection so stupefyingly simple that it cheapens the power of the written word, so that by the year 2025, aspiring novelists would be better off just giving people a hug.", "speech": "noun", "video": null, "entry": 20, "hasQuotes": 0 }, "21": { "id": 26, "title": "daguerreologue", "non_latin_title": "daguerreologue", "author": "John Koenig", "authorPicture": "https:\/\/ideasofthevagabond.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/10\/john-koenig.jpg", "definition": "an imaginary interview with an old photo of yourself, an enigmatic figure who still lives in the grainy and color-warped house you grew up in, who may well spend a lot of their day wondering where you are and what you\u2019re doing now, like an old grandma whose kids live far away and don\u2019t call much anymore.", "speech": "noun", "video": null, "entry": 21, "hasQuotes": 0 }, "22": { "id": 27, "title": "dead reckoning", "non_latin_title": "dead_reckoning", "author": "John Koenig", "authorPicture": "https:\/\/ideasofthevagabond.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/10\/john-koenig.jpg", "definition": "to find yourself bothered by someone\u2019s death more than you would have expected, as if you assumed they would always be part of the landscape, like a lighthouse you could pass by for years until the night it suddenly goes dark, leaving you with one less landmark to navigate by\u2014still able to find your bearings, but feeling all that much more adrift.", "speech": "noun", "video": null, "entry": 22, "hasQuotes": 0 }, "23": { "id": 28, "title": "deep cut", "non_latin_title": "deep_cut", "author": "John Koenig", "authorPicture": "https:\/\/ideasofthevagabond.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/10\/john-koenig.jpg", "definition": "an emotion you haven\u2019t felt in years that you might have forgotten about completely if your emotional playlist hadn\u2019t been left on shuffle\u2014a feeling whose opening riff tugs on all your other neurons like a dog on a leash waiting for you to open the door.", "speech": "noun", "video": null, "entry": 23, "hasQuotes": 0 }, "24": { "id": 3, "title": "degrass\u00e9", "non_latin_title": "degrasse", "author": "John Koenig", "authorPicture": "https:\/\/ideasofthevagabond.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/10\/john-koenig.jpg", "definition": "entranced and unsettled by the vastness of the universe, experienced in a jolt of recognition that the night sky is not just a wallpaper but a deeply foreign ocean whose currents are steadily carrying off all other castaways, who share our predicament but are already well out of earshot\u2014worlds and stars who would\u2019ve been lost entirely except for the scrap of light they were able to fling out into the dark, a message in a bottle that\u2019s only just now washing up in the Earth\u2019s atmosphere, an invitation to a party that already ended a million years ago.", "speech": "adjective", "video": null, "entry": 24, "hasQuotes": 0 }, "25": { "id": 4, "title": "dialecstatic", "non_latin_title": "dialecstatic", "author": "John Koenig", "authorPicture": "https:\/\/ideasofthevagabond.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/10\/john-koenig.jpg", "definition": "hearing a person with a thick accent pronounce a certain phrase\u2014the Texan \u201ccooler,\u201d the South African \u201cbastard,\u201d the Kiwi \u201cthirty years ago\u201d\u2014and wanting them to repeat it over and over until the vowels pool in the air and congeal into a linguistic taffy you could break apart and give as presents.", "speech": "adjective", "video": null, "entry": 25, "hasQuotes": 0 }, "26": { "id": 29, "title": "dream fever", "non_latin_title": "dream_fever", "author": "John Koenig", "authorPicture": "https:\/\/ideasofthevagabond.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/10\/john-koenig.jpg", "definition": "the intense heat on the skin of a sleeping person, a radioactive byproduct of an idle mind humming with secret delusions which then vaporize when plunged into the cooling bath of reality, thus preventing a meltdown that could endanger those close by, who tolerate the risk because it gives them energy.", "speech": "noun", "video": null, "entry": 26, "hasQuotes": 0 }, "27": { "id": 30, "title": "d\u00e8s vu", "non_latin_title": "des_vu", "author": "John Koenig", "authorPicture": "https:\/\/ideasofthevagabond.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/10\/john-koenig.jpg", "definition": "the awareness that this will become a memory", "speech": "noun", "video": "https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bPKoIZn6IJI", "entry": 27, "hasQuotes": 1 }, "28": { "id": 31, "title": "ecstatic shock", "non_latin_title": "ecstatic_shock", "author": "John Koenig", "authorPicture": "https:\/\/ideasofthevagabond.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/10\/john-koenig.jpg", "definition": "the surge of energy upon catching a glance from someone you like\u2014a thrill that starts in your stomach, arcs up through your lungs and flashes into a spontaneous smile\u2014which scrambles your ungrounded circuits and tempts you to chase that feeling with a kite and a key.", "speech": "noun", "video": null, "entry": 28, "hasQuotes": 0 }, "29": { "id": 32, "title": "ellipsism", "non_latin_title": "ellipsism", "author": "John Koenig", "authorPicture": "https:\/\/ideasofthevagabond.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/10\/john-koenig.jpg", "definition": "sadness that you\u2019ll never be able to know how history will turn out, that you\u2019ll dutifully pass on the joke of being alive without ever learning the punchline\u2014the name of the beneficiary of all human struggle, the sum of the final payout of every investment ever made in the future\u2014which may not suit your sense of humor anyway and will probably involve how many people it takes to change a lightbulb.", "speech": "noun", "video": null, "entry": 29, "hasQuotes": 0 }, "30": { "id": 33, "title": "exulansis", "non_latin_title": "exulansis", "author": "John Koenig", "authorPicture": "https:\/\/ideasofthevagabond.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/10\/john-koenig.jpg", "definition": "the tendency to give up trying to talk about an experience because people are unable to relate to it\u2014whether through envy or pity or simple foreignness\u2014which allows it to drift away from the rest of your life story, until the memory itself feels out of place, almost mythical, wandering restlessly in the fog, no longer even looking for a place to land.", "speech": "noun", "video": null, "entry": 30, "hasQuotes": 0 }, "31": { "id": 34, "title": "fata organa", "non_latin_title": "fata_organa", "author": "John Koenig", "authorPicture": "https:\/\/ideasofthevagabond.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/10\/john-koenig.jpg", "definition": "a flash of real emotion glimpsed in someone sitting across the room, idly locked in the middle of some group conversation, their eyes glinting with vulnerability or quiet anticipation or cosmic boredom\u2014as if you could see backstage through a gap in the curtains, watching stagehands holding their ropes at the ready, actors in costume mouthing their lines, fragments of bizarre sets waiting for some other production.", "speech": "noun", "video": null, "entry": 31, "hasQuotes": 0 }, "32": { "id": 35, "title": "fitzcarraldo", "non_latin_title": "fitzcarraldo", "author": "John Koenig", "authorPicture": "https:\/\/ideasofthevagabond.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/10\/john-koenig.jpg", "definition": "an image that somehow becomes lodged deep in your brain\u2014maybe washed there by a dream, or smuggled inside a book, or planted during a casual conversation\u2014which then grows into a wild and impractical vision that keeps scrambling back and forth in your head like a dog stuck in a car that\u2019s about to arrive home, just itching for a chance to leap headlong into reality.", "speech": "noun", "video": null, "entry": 32, "hasQuotes": 0 }, "33": { "id": 36, "title": "flashover", "non_latin_title": "flashover", "author": "John Koenig", "authorPicture": "https:\/\/ideasofthevagabond.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/10\/john-koenig.jpg", "definition": "the moment a conversation becomes real and alive, which occurs when a spark of trust shorts out the delicate circuits you keep insulated under layers of irony, momentarily grounding the static emotional charge you\u2019ve built up through decades of friction with the world.", "speech": "noun", "video": null, "entry": 33, "hasQuotes": 0 }, "34": { "id": 37, "title": "funkenzwangsvorstellung", "non_latin_title": "funkenzwangsvorstellung", "author": "John Koenig", "authorPicture": "https:\/\/ideasofthevagabond.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/10\/john-koenig.jpg", "definition": "the instinctive trance of a campfire in the dark, spending hours roasting and watching as it settles and sinks into the ground like a heap of shipwrecks whose sailors raise their flickering sails trying to signal that the prevailing winds of your life are about to shift, that the edge of the Earth is real and looming just a few years ahead, and that your marshmallow is on fire.", "speech": "noun", "video": null, "entry": 34, "hasQuotes": 0 }, "35": { "id": 38, "title": "gnasche", "non_latin_title": "gnasche", "author": "John Koenig", "authorPicture": "https:\/\/ideasofthevagabond.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/10\/john-koenig.jpg", "definition": "the intense desire to bite deeply into the forearm of someone you love.", "speech": "noun", "video": null, "entry": 35, "hasQuotes": 0 }, "36": { "id": 39, "title": "gnossienne", "non_latin_title": "gnossienne", "author": "John Koenig", "authorPicture": "https:\/\/ideasofthevagabond.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/10\/john-koenig.jpg", "definition": "a moment of awareness that someone you\u2019ve known for years still has a private and mysterious inner life, and somewhere in the hallways of their personality is a door locked from the inside, a stairway leading to a wing of the house that you\u2019ve never fully explored\u2014an unfinished attic that will remain maddeningly unknowable to you, because ultimately neither of you has a map, or a master key, or any way of knowing exactly where you stand.", "speech": "noun", "video": null, "entry": 36, "hasQuotes": 0 }, "37": { "id": 16, "title": "hanker sore", "non_latin_title": "hanker_sore", "author": "John Koenig", "authorPicture": "https:\/\/ideasofthevagabond.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/10\/john-koenig.jpg", "definition": "finding a person so attractive it actually kinda pisses you off.", "speech": "adjective", "video": null, "entry": 37, "hasQuotes": 0 }, "38": { "id": 40, "title": "heartworm", "non_latin_title": "heartworm", "author": "John Koenig", "authorPicture": "https:\/\/ideasofthevagabond.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/10\/john-koenig.jpg", "definition": "a relationship or friendship that you can\u2019t get out of your head, which you thought had faded long ago but is still somehow alive and unfinished, like an abandoned campsite whose smoldering embers still have the power to start a forest fire.", "speech": "noun", "video": null, "entry": 38, "hasQuotes": 0 }, "39": { "id": 41, "title": "hiybbprqag", "non_latin_title": "hiybbprqag", "author": "John Koenig", "authorPicture": "https:\/\/ideasofthevagabond.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/10\/john-koenig.jpg", "definition": "the feeling that everything original has already been done, that the experiment of human culture long ago filled its petri dish and now just feeds on itself, endlessly crossbreeding old clich\u00e9s into a radioactive ooze of sadness.", "speech": "noun", "video": null, "entry": 39, "hasQuotes": 0 }, "40": { "id": 42, "title": "jouska", "non_latin_title": "jouska", "author": "John Koenig", "authorPicture": "https:\/\/ideasofthevagabond.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/10\/john-koenig.jpg", "definition": "a hypothetical conversation that you compulsively play out in your head\u2014a crisp analysis, a cathartic dialogue, a devastating comeback\u2014which serves as a kind of psychological batting cage where you can connect more deeply with people than in the small ball of everyday life, which is a frustratingly cautious game of change-up pitches, sacrifice bunts, and intentional walks.", "speech": "noun", "video": null, "entry": 40, "hasQuotes": 0 }, "41": { "id": 43, "title": "kairosclerosis", "non_latin_title": "kairosclerosis", "author": "John Koenig", "authorPicture": "https:\/\/ideasofthevagabond.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/10\/john-koenig.jpg", "definition": "the moment you realize that you\u2019re currently happy\u2014consciously trying to savor the feeling\u2014which prompts your intellect to identify it, pick it apart and put it in context, where it will slowly dissolve until it\u2019s little more than an aftertaste.", "speech": "noun", "video": null, "entry": 41, "hasQuotes": 0 }, "42": { "id": 44, "title": "kenopsia", "non_latin_title": "kenopsia", "author": "John Koenig", "authorPicture": "https:\/\/ideasofthevagabond.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/10\/john-koenig.jpg", "definition": "the eerie, forlorn atmosphere of a place that\u2019s usually bustling with people but is now abandoned and quiet \u2014a school hallway in the evening, an unlit office on a weekend, vacant fairgrounds\u2014an emotional afterimage that makes it seem not just empty but hyper-empty, with a total population in the negative, who are so conspicuously absent they glow like neon signs.", "speech": "noun", "video": "https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=OzkLgLtVreg", "entry": 42, "hasQuotes": 1 }, "43": { "id": 45, "title": "keta", "non_latin_title": "keta", "author": "John Koenig", "authorPicture": "https:\/\/ideasofthevagabond.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/10\/john-koenig.jpg", "definition": "an image that inexplicably leaps back into your mind from the distant past.", "speech": "noun", "video": "https:\/\/vimeo.com\/83258629", "entry": 43, "hasQuotes": 0 }, "44": { "id": 46, "title": "keyframe", "non_latin_title": "keyframe", "author": "John Koenig", "authorPicture": "https:\/\/ideasofthevagabond.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/10\/john-koenig.jpg", "definition": "a moment that seemed innocuous at the time but ended up marking a diversion into a strange new era of your life\u2014set in motion not by a series of jolting epiphanies but by tiny imperceptible differences between one ordinary day and the next, until entire years of your memory can be compressed into a handful of indelible images\u2014which prevents you from rewinding the past, but allows you to move forward without endless buffering.", "speech": "noun", "video": "https:\/\/vimeo.com\/81858839", "entry": 44, "hasQuotes": 0 }, "45": { "id": 47, "title": "klexos", "non_latin_title": "klexos", "author": "John Koenig", "authorPicture": "https:\/\/ideasofthevagabond.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/10\/john-koenig.jpg", "definition": "the art of dwelling on the past", "speech": "noun", "video": "https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pxN1YnVUfjM", "entry": 45, "hasQuotes": 1 }, "46": { "id": 48, "title": "koinophobia", "non_latin_title": "koinophobia", "author": "John Koenig", "authorPicture": "https:\/\/ideasofthevagabond.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/10\/john-koenig.jpg", "definition": "the fear that you've lived an ordinary life", "speech": "noun", "video": "https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Kcjfi8oNQY8", "entry": 46, "hasQuotes": 1 }, "47": { "id": 49, "title": "kudoclasm", "non_latin_title": "kudoclasm", "author": "John Koenig", "authorPicture": "https:\/\/ideasofthevagabond.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/10\/john-koenig.jpg", "definition": "when lifelong dreams are brought down to earth", "speech": "noun", "video": "https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vPHuRnixxWM", "entry": 47, "hasQuotes": 1 }, "48": { "id": 50, "title": "kuebiko", "non_latin_title": "kuebiko", "author": "John Koenig", "authorPicture": "https:\/\/ideasofthevagabond.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/10\/john-koenig.jpg", "definition": "a state of exhaustion inspired by acts of senseless violence, which force you to revise your image of what can happen in this world\u2014mending the fences of your expectations, weeding out all unwelcome and invasive truths, cultivating the perennial good that\u2019s buried under the surface, and propping yourself up like an old scarecrow, who\u2019s bursting at the seams but powerless to do anything but stand there and watch.", "speech": "noun", "video": null, "entry": 48, "hasQuotes": 0 }, "49": { "id": 51, "title": "la cuna", "non_latin_title": "la_cuna", "author": "John Koenig", "authorPicture": "https:\/\/ideasofthevagabond.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/10\/john-koenig.jpg", "definition": "a twinge of sadness that there\u2019s no frontier left, that as the last explorer trudged with his armies toward a blank spot on the map, he didn\u2019t suddenly remember his daughter\u2019s upcoming piano recital and turn for home, leaving a new continent unexplored so we could set its mists and mountains aside as a strategic reserve of mystery, if only to answer more of our children\u2019s questions with \u201cNobody knows! Out there, anything is possible.\u201d", "speech": "noun", "video": null, "entry": 49, "hasQuotes": 0 }, "50": { "id": 52, "title": "la gaudi\u00e8re", "non_latin_title": "la_gaudiere", "author": "John Koenig", "authorPicture": "https:\/\/ideasofthevagabond.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/10\/john-koenig.jpg", "definition": "the glint of goodness inside people, which you can only find by sloshing them back and forth in your mind until everything dark and gray and common falls away, leaving behind a constellation at the bottom of the pan\u2014a rare element trapped in exposed bedrock, washed there by a storm somewhere upstream.", "speech": "noun", "video": null, "entry": 50, "hasQuotes": 0 }, "51": { "id": 53, "title": "lachesism", "non_latin_title": "lachesism", "author": "John Koenig", "authorPicture": "https:\/\/ideasofthevagabond.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/10\/john-koenig.jpg", "definition": "the desire to be struck by disaster\u2014to survive a plane crash, to lose everything in a fire, to plunge over a waterfall\u2014which would put a kink in the smooth arc of your life, and forge it into something hardened and flexible and sharp, not just a stiff prefabricated beam that barely covers the gap between one end of your life and the other.", "speech": "noun", "video": "https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wqovm-Io2D0", "entry": 51, "hasQuotes": 1 }, "52": { "id": 54, "title": "lalalalia", "non_latin_title": "lalalalia", "author": "John Koenig", "authorPicture": "https:\/\/ideasofthevagabond.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/10\/john-koenig.jpg", "definition": "the realization while talking to yourself that someone else is within earshot, which leads you to crossfade into mumbled singing, an auditory sleight of hand that distracts the audience from the exposed platform under your persona while you prepare to saw your confidence in half.", "speech": "noun", "video": null, "entry": 52, "hasQuotes": 0 }, "53": { "id": 55, "title": "lapyear", "non_latin_title": "lapyear", "author": "John Koenig", "authorPicture": "https:\/\/ideasofthevagabond.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/10\/john-koenig.jpg", "definition": "the age at which you become older than your parents were when you were born, which signals that your leg of the relay race has already begun, having coasted in their slipstream as they tackled the mountain stages of life, leaving you strong, energetic and deeply mortified by their loud yellow jerseys.", "speech": "noun", "video": null, "entry": 53, "hasQuotes": 0 }, "54": { "id": 56, "title": "lethobenthos", "non_latin_title": "lethobenthos", "author": "John Koenig", "authorPicture": "https:\/\/ideasofthevagabond.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/10\/john-koenig.jpg", "definition": "the habit of forgetting how important someone is to you until you see them again in person, making you wish your day would begin with a \u201cpreviously on\u201d recap of your life\u2019s various plot arcs, and end with \u201cto be continued\u2026\u201d after those will-they-won\u2019t-they cliffhanger episodes that air just before the show goes back into months of repeats.", "speech": "noun", "video": null, "entry": 54, "hasQuotes": 0 }, "55": { "id": 57, "title": "liberosis", "non_latin_title": "liberosis", "author": "John Koenig", "authorPicture": "https:\/\/ideasofthevagabond.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/10\/john-koenig.jpg", "definition": "the desire to care less about things\u2014to loosen your grip on your life, to stop glancing behind you every few steps, afraid that someone will snatch it from you before you reach the end zone\u2014rather to hold your life loosely and playfully, like a volleyball, keeping it in the air, with only quick fleeting interventions, bouncing freely in the hands of trusted friends, always in play.", "speech": "noun", "video": null, "entry": 55, "hasQuotes": 0 }, "56": { "id": 58, "title": "lutalica", "non_latin_title": "lutalica", "author": "John Koenig", "authorPicture": "https:\/\/ideasofthevagabond.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/10\/john-koenig.jpg", "definition": "the part of your identity that doesn't fit into categories", "speech": "noun", "video": "https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Tz1PNIOQsFs", "entry": 56, "hasQuotes": 1 }, "57": { "id": 59, "title": "mahpiohanzia", "non_latin_title": "mahpiohanzia", "author": "John Koenig", "authorPicture": "https:\/\/ideasofthevagabond.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/10\/john-koenig.jpg", "definition": "the disappointment of being unable to fly, unable to stretch out your arms and vault into the air, having finally shrugged off the ballast of your own weight and ignited the fuel tank of unfulfilled desires you\u2019ve been storing up since before you were born.", "speech": "noun", "video": null, "entry": 57, "hasQuotes": 0 }, "58": { "id": 60, "title": "mal de coucou", "non_latin_title": "mal_de_coucou", "author": "John Koenig", "authorPicture": "https:\/\/ideasofthevagabond.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/10\/john-koenig.jpg", "definition": "a phenomenon in which you have an active social life but very few close friends\u2014people who you can trust, who you can be yourself with, who can help flush out the weird psychological toxins that tend to accumulate over time\u2014which is a form of acute social malnutrition in which even if you devour an entire buffet of chitchat, you\u2019ll still feel pangs of hunger.", "speech": "noun", "video": null, "entry": 58, "hasQuotes": 0 }, "59": { "id": 61, "title": "mauerbauertraurigkeit", "non_latin_title": "mauerbauertraurigkeit", "author": "John Koenig", "authorPicture": "https:\/\/ideasofthevagabond.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/10\/john-koenig.jpg", "definition": "the inexplicable urge to push people away, even close friends who you really like\u2014as if all your social tastebuds suddenly went numb, leaving you unable to distinguish cheap politeness from the taste of genuine affection, unable to recognize its rich and ambiguous flavors, its long and delicate maturation, or the simple fact that each tasting is double-blind.", "speech": "noun", "video": null, "entry": 59, "hasQuotes": 0 }, "60": { "id": 62, "title": "midsummer", "non_latin_title": "midsummer", "author": "John Koenig", "authorPicture": "https:\/\/ideasofthevagabond.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/10\/john-koenig.jpg", "definition": "a feast celebrated on the day of your 26th birthday, which marks the point at which your youth finally expires as a valid excuse\u2014when you must begin harvesting your crops, even if they\u2019ve barely taken root\u2014and the point at which the days will begin to feel shorter as they pass, until even the pollen in the air reminds you of the coming snow.", "speech": "noun", "video": null, "entry": 60, "hasQuotes": 0 }, "61": { "id": 63, "title": "mimeomia", "non_latin_title": "mimeomia", "author": "John Koenig", "authorPicture": "https:\/\/ideasofthevagabond.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/10\/john-koenig.jpg", "definition": "the frustration of knowing how easily you fit into a stereotype, even if you never intended to, even if it\u2019s unfair, even if everyone else feels the same way\u2014each of us trick-or-treating for money and respect and attention, wearing a safe and predictable costume because we\u2019re tired of answering the question, \"What are you supposed to be?\"", "speech": "noun", "video": null, "entry": 61, "hasQuotes": 0 }, "62": { "id": 64, "title": "moledro", "non_latin_title": "moledro", "author": "John Koenig", "authorPicture": "https:\/\/ideasofthevagabond.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/10\/john-koenig.jpg", "definition": "a feeling of resonant connection with an author or artist you\u2019ll never meet, who may have lived centuries ago and thousands of miles away but can still get inside your head and leave behind morsels of their experience, like the little piles of stones left by hikers that mark a hidden path through unfamiliar territory.", "speech": "noun", "video": null, "entry": 62, "hasQuotes": 0 }, "63": { "id": 65, "title": "moment of tangency", "non_latin_title": "moment_of_tangency", "author": "John Koenig", "authorPicture": "https:\/\/ideasofthevagabond.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/10\/john-koenig.jpg", "definition": "A glimpse of what might have been", "speech": "noun", "video": "https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cxOuG6zQo_0", "entry": 63, "hasQuotes": 1 }, "64": { "id": 66, "title": "monachopsis", "non_latin_title": "monachopsis", "author": "John Koenig", "authorPicture": "https:\/\/ideasofthevagabond.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/10\/john-koenig.jpg", "definition": "he subtle but persistent feeling of being out of place, as maladapted to your surroundings as a seal on a beach\u2014lumbering, clumsy, easily distracted, huddled in the company of other misfits, unable to recognize the ambient roar of your intended habitat, in which you\u2019d be fluidly, brilliantly, effortlessly at home.", "speech": "noun", "video": null, "entry": 64, "hasQuotes": 0 }, "65": { "id": 67, "title": "morii", "non_latin_title": "morii", "author": "John Koenig", "authorPicture": "https:\/\/ideasofthevagabond.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/10\/john-koenig.jpg", "definition": "the desire to capture a fleeting experience", "speech": "noun", "video": "https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1asBOCAmgaw", "entry": 65, "hasQuotes": 1 }, "66": { "id": 68, "title": "moriturism", "non_latin_title": "moriturism", "author": "John Koenig", "authorPicture": "https:\/\/ideasofthevagabond.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/10\/john-koenig.jpg", "definition": "the insomnia-borne jolt of awareness that you will die, that these passing years aren\u2019t just scenes from a dress rehearsal, rounds of an ongoing game or chapters in a story you\u2019ll be telling later, but are footprints being lapped by the steadily gathering tide of an unfathomable abyss, which still wouldn\u2019t wash out the aftertaste of all those baskets of Buffalo wings you devoured just before bedtime.", "speech": "noun", "video": null, "entry": 66, "hasQuotes": 0 }, "67": { "id": 69, "title": "nementia", "non_latin_title": "nementia", "author": "John Koenig", "authorPicture": "https:\/\/ideasofthevagabond.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/10\/john-koenig.jpg", "definition": "the post-distraction effort to recall the reason why you\u2019re feeling particularly anxious or angry or excited, in which you retrace your sequence of thoughts like a kid wandering across the neighborhood gathering the string of a downed kite, which was likely lost in a romantic storm or devoured by that huge carnivorous tree that is Things Your Parents Have Said.", "speech": "noun", "video": null, "entry": 67, "hasQuotes": 0 }, "68": { "id": 70, "title": "nighthawk", "non_latin_title": "nighthawk", "author": "John Koenig", "authorPicture": "https:\/\/ideasofthevagabond.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/10\/john-koenig.jpg", "definition": "a recurring thought that only seems to strike you late at night\u2014an overdue task, a nagging guilt, a looming and shapeless future\u2014that circles high overhead during the day, that pecks at the back of your mind while you try to sleep, that you can successfully ignore for weeks, only to feel its presence hovering outside the window, waiting for you to finish your coffee, passing the time by quietly building a nest.", "speech": "noun", "video": null, "entry": 68, "hasQuotes": 0 }, "69": { "id": 71, "title": "nodus tollens", "non_latin_title": "nodus_tollens", "author": "John Koenig", "authorPicture": "https:\/\/ideasofthevagabond.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/10\/john-koenig.jpg", "definition": "the realization that the plot of your life doesn't make sense to you anymore-that although you thought you were following the arc of the story, you keep finding yourself immersed in passages you don't understand, that don't even seem to belong in the same genre-which requires you to go back and reread the chapters you had originally skimmed to get to the good parts, only to learn that all along you were supposed to choose your own adventure.", "speech": "noun", "video": "https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Qc6cMHUyblg", "entry": 69, "hasQuotes": 1 }, "70": { "id": 72, "title": "occhiolism", "non_latin_title": "occhiolism", "author": "John Koenig", "authorPicture": "https:\/\/ideasofthevagabond.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/10\/john-koenig.jpg", "definition": "the awareness of the smallness of your perspective, by which you couldn\u2019t possibly draw any meaningful conclusions at all, about the world or the past or the complexities of culture, because although your life is an epic and unrepeatable anecdote, it still only has a sample size of one, and may end up being the control for a much wilder experiment happening in the next room.", "speech": "noun", "video": null, "entry": 70, "hasQuotes": 0 }, "71": { "id": 73, "title": "oleka", "non_latin_title": "oleka", "author": "John Koenig", "authorPicture": "https:\/\/ideasofthevagabond.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/10\/john-koenig.jpg", "definition": "the awarenes of how few days are memorable", "speech": "noun", "video": "https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3FKsCK6Vfuk", "entry": 71, "hasQuotes": 1 }, "72": { "id": 1, "title": "onism", "non_latin_title": "onism", "author": "John Koenig", "authorPicture": "https:\/\/ideasofthevagabond.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/10\/john-koenig.jpg", "definition": "the frustration of being stuck in just one body, that inhabits only one place at a time, which is like standing in front of the departures screen at an airport, flickering over with strange place names like other people\\\"s passwords, each representing one more thing you\\\"ll never get to see before you die-and all because, as the arrow on the map helpfully points out, you are here.", "speech": "noun", "video": "https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=IrBlmpqh8T0", "entry": 72, "hasQuotes": 1 }, "73": { "id": 74, "title": "opia", "non_latin_title": "opia", "author": "John Koenig", "authorPicture": "https:\/\/ideasofthevagabond.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/10\/john-koenig.jpg", "definition": "the ambiguous intensity of looking someone in the eye, which can feel simultaneously invasive and vulnerable\u2014their pupils glittering, bottomless and opaque\u2014as if you were peering through a hole in the door of a house, able to tell that there\u2019s someone standing there, but unable to tell if you\u2019re looking in or looking out.", "speech": "noun", "video": "https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wsKBTIdR99o", "entry": 73, "hasQuotes": 1 }, "74": { "id": 75, "title": "p\u00e2ro", "non_latin_title": "paro", "author": "John Koenig", "authorPicture": "https:\/\/ideasofthevagabond.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/10\/john-koenig.jpg", "definition": "the feeling that no matter what you do is always somehow wrong\u2014that any attempt to make your way comfortably through the world will only end up crossing some invisible taboo\u2014as if there\u2019s some obvious way forward that everybody else can see but you, each of them leaning back in their chair and calling out helpfully, colder, colder, colder.", "speech": "noun", "video": null, "entry": 74, "hasQuotes": 0 }, "75": { "id": 76, "title": "reverse shibboleth", "non_latin_title": "reverse_shibboleth", "author": "John Koenig", "authorPicture": "https:\/\/ideasofthevagabond.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/10\/john-koenig.jpg", "definition": "the practice of answering a cellphone with a generic \"Hello?\" as if you didn\u2019t already know exactly who was calling\u2014which is a little like the egg requirement that marketers added to early cake mixes in the 1950s, an antiquated extra step that\u2019s only there to reassure you that it\u2019s an authentic homecooked meal, just like grandma used to make.", "speech": "noun", "video": null, "entry": 75, "hasQuotes": 0 }, "76": { "id": 77, "title": "rigor samsa", "non_latin_title": "rigor_samsa", "author": "John Koenig", "authorPicture": "https:\/\/ideasofthevagabond.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/10\/john-koenig.jpg", "definition": "a kind of psychological exoskeleton that can protect you from pain and contain your anxieties, but always ends up cracking under pressure or hollowed out by time\u2014and will keep growing back again and again, until you develop a more sophisticated emotional structure, held up by a strong and flexible spine, built less like a fortress than a cluster of treehouses.", "speech": "noun", "video": null, "entry": 76, "hasQuotes": 0 }, "77": { "id": 78, "title": "rollover reaction", "non_latin_title": "rollover_reaction", "author": "John Koenig", "authorPicture": "https:\/\/ideasofthevagabond.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/10\/john-koenig.jpg", "definition": "when your dream about someone you know skews how you feel about them all the next day, an emotion you are unable\u2014and unwilling\u2014to shake.", "speech": "noun", "video": null, "entry": 77, "hasQuotes": 0 }, "78": { "id": 79, "title": "rubatosis", "non_latin_title": "rubatosis", "author": "John Koenig", "authorPicture": "https:\/\/ideasofthevagabond.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/10\/john-koenig.jpg", "definition": "the unsettling awareness of your own heartbeat, whose tenuous muscular throbbing feels less like a metronome than a nervous ditty your heart is tapping to itself, the kind that people compulsively hum or sing while walking in complete darkness, as if to casually remind the outside world, I\u2019m here, I\u2019m here, I\u2019m here.", "speech": "noun", "video": null, "entry": 78, "hasQuotes": 0 }, "79": { "id": 80, "title": "r\u00fcckkehrunruhe", "non_latin_title": "ruckkehrunruhe", "author": "John Koenig", "authorPicture": "https:\/\/ideasofthevagabond.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/10\/john-koenig.jpg", "definition": "the feeling of returning home after an immersive trip only to find it fading rapidly from your awareness\u2014to the extent you have to keep reminding yourself that it happened at all, even though it felt so vivid just days ago\u2014which makes you wish you could smoothly cross-dissolve back into everyday life, or just hold the shutter open indefinitely and let one scene become superimposed on the next, so all your days would run together and you\u2019d never have to call cut.", "speech": "noun", "video": null, "entry": 79, "hasQuotes": 0 }, "80": { "id": 17, "title": "scabulous", "non_latin_title": "scabulous", "author": "John Koenig", "authorPicture": "https:\/\/ideasofthevagabond.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/10\/john-koenig.jpg", "definition": "proud of a scar on your body, an autograph signed to you by a world grateful for your continued willingness to play with her, even when you don\u2019t feel like it.", "speech": "adjective", "video": null, "entry": 80, "hasQuotes": 0 }, "81": { "id": 81, "title": "semaphorism", "non_latin_title": "semaphorism", "author": "John Koenig", "authorPicture": "https:\/\/ideasofthevagabond.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/10\/john-koenig.jpg", "definition": "a conversational hint that you have something personal to say on the subject but don\u2019t go any further \u2014an emphatic nod, a half-told anecdote, an enigmatic \u2018I know the feeling'\u2014which you place into conversations like those little flags that warn diggers of something buried underground: maybe a cable that secretly powers your house, maybe a fiberoptic link to some foreign country.", "speech": "noun", "video": null, "entry": 81, "hasQuotes": 0 }, "82": { "id": 82, "title": "silience", "non_latin_title": "silience", "author": "John Koenig", "authorPicture": "https:\/\/ideasofthevagabond.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/10\/john-koenig.jpg", "definition": "the kind of unnoticed excellence that carries on around you every day, unremarkably\u2014the hidden talents of friends and coworkers, the fleeting solos of subway buskers, the slapdash eloquence of anonymous users, the unseen portfolios of aspiring artists\u2014which would be renowned as masterpieces if only they\u2019d been appraised by the cartel of popular taste, who assume that brilliance is a rare and precious quality, accidentally overlooking buried jewels that may not be flawless but are still somehow perfect.", "speech": "noun", "video": "https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=i_DZHALK2yE", "entry": 82, "hasQuotes": 1 }, "83": { "id": 83, "title": "slipcast", "non_latin_title": "slipcast", "author": "John Koenig", "authorPicture": "https:\/\/ideasofthevagabond.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/10\/john-koenig.jpg", "definition": "the default expression that your face automatically reverts to when idle\u2014amused, melancholic, pissed off\u2014which occurs when a strong emotion gets buried and forgotten in the psychological laundry of everyday life, leaving you wearing an unintentional vibe of pink or blue or gray, or in rare cases, a tie-dye of sheer madness.", "speech": "noun", "video": null, "entry": 83, "hasQuotes": 0 }, "84": { "id": 84, "title": "socha", "non_latin_title": "socha", "author": "John Koenig", "authorPicture": "https:\/\/ideasofthevagabond.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/10\/john-koenig.jpg", "definition": "the hidden vulnerability of others", "speech": "noun", "video": "https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=igKea6GgTvI", "entry": 84, "hasQuotes": 1 }, "85": { "id": 85, "title": "sonder", "non_latin_title": "sonder", "author": "John Koenig", "authorPicture": "https:\/\/ideasofthevagabond.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/10\/john-koenig.jpg", "definition": "the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own.", "speech": "noun", "video": "https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=AkoML0_FiV4", "entry": 85, "hasQuotes": 1 }, "86": { "id": 86, "title": "swish fulfillment", "non_latin_title": "swish_fulfillment", "author": "John Koenig", "authorPicture": "https:\/\/ideasofthevagabond.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/10\/john-koenig.jpg", "definition": "the feeling of delicate luck after casually tossing something across the room and hitting your target so crisply and perfectly that you feel no desire to even attempt another shot, which is a more compelling argument for the concept of monogamous love than anything sung to a guitar.", "speech": "noun", "video": null, "entry": 86, "hasQuotes": 0 }, "87": { "id": 87, "title": "the bends", "non_latin_title": "the_bends", "author": "John Koenig", "authorPicture": "https:\/\/ideasofthevagabond.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/10\/john-koenig.jpg", "definition": "frustration that you\u2019re not enjoying an experience as much as you should, even something you\u2019ve worked for years to attain, which prompts you to plug in various thought combinations to try for anything more than static emotional blankness, as if your heart had been accidentally demagnetized by a surge of expectations.", "speech": "noun", "video": null, "entry": 87, "hasQuotes": 0 }, "88": { "id": 88, "title": "the kinda blues", "non_latin_title": "the_kinda_blues", "author": "John Koenig", "authorPicture": "https:\/\/ideasofthevagabond.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/10\/john-koenig.jpg", "definition": "the sad awareness that the unfolding plot of your life feels new and profound but is not unique, just one of a few dozen possible riffs on the same chord progression, while the tunes reverberating from the jukebox in your chest are all covers of old standards from the Great Emotional Songbook, which is 98% identical to that of the chimpanzee.", "speech": "noun", "video": null, "entry": 88, "hasQuotes": 0 }, "89": { "id": 89, "title": "the McFly effect", "non_latin_title": "the_mcfly_effect", "author": "John Koenig", "authorPicture": "https:\/\/ideasofthevagabond.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/10\/john-koenig.jpg", "definition": "the phenomenon of observing your parents interact with people they grew up with, which reboots their personalities into youth mode, reverting to a time before the last save point, when they were still dreamers and rascals cooling their heels in the wilderness, waiting terrified and eager to meet you for the first time.", "speech": "noun", "video": null, "entry": 89, "hasQuotes": 0 }, "90": { "id": 90, "title": "the meantime", "non_latin_title": "the_meantime", "author": "John Koenig", "authorPicture": "https:\/\/ideasofthevagabond.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/10\/john-koenig.jpg", "definition": "the moment of realization that your quintessential future self isn\u2019t ever going to show up, which forces the role to fall upon the understudy, the gawky kid for whom nothing is easy, who spent years mouthing their lines in the wings before being shoved into the glare of your life, which is already well into its second act.", "speech": "noun", "video": null, "entry": 90, "hasQuotes": 0 }, "91": { "id": 91, "title": "the tilt shift", "non_latin_title": "the_tilt_shift", "author": "John Koenig", "authorPicture": "https:\/\/ideasofthevagabond.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/10\/john-koenig.jpg", "definition": "a phenomenon in which your lived experience seems oddly inconsequential once you put it down on paper, which turns an epic tragicomedy into a sequence of figures on a model train set, assembled in their tiny classrooms and workplaces, wandering along their own cautious and well-trodden paths\u2014peaceable, generic and out of focus.", "speech": "noun", "video": null, "entry": 91, "hasQuotes": 0 }, "92": { "id": 92, "title": "trumspringa", "non_latin_title": "trumspringa", "author": "John Koenig", "authorPicture": "https:\/\/ideasofthevagabond.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/10\/john-koenig.jpg", "definition": "the temptation to step off your career track and become a shepherd in the mountains, following your flock between pastures with a sheepdog and a rifle, watching storms at dusk from the doorway of a small cabin, just the kind of hypnotic diversion that allows your thoughts to make a break for it and wander back to their cubicles in the city.", "speech": "noun", "video": null, "entry": 92, "hasQuotes": 0 }, "93": { "id": 93, "title": "vellichor", "non_latin_title": "vellichor", "author": "John Koenig", "authorPicture": "https:\/\/ideasofthevagabond.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/10\/john-koenig.jpg", "definition": "the strange wistfulness of used bookstores, which are somehow infused with the passage of time\u2014filled with thousands of old books you\u2019ll 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.", "speech": "noun", "video": null, "entry": 93, "hasQuotes": 0 }, "94": { "id": 94, "title": "vem\u00f6dalen", "non_latin_title": "vemodalen", "author": "John Koenig", "authorPicture": "https:\/\/ideasofthevagabond.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/10\/john-koenig.jpg", "definition": "the frustration of photographing something amazing when thousands of identical photos already exist\u2014the same sunset, the same waterfall, the same curve of a hip, the same closeup of an eye\u2014which can turn a unique subject into something hollow and pulpy and cheap, like a mass-produced piece of furniture you happen to have assembled yourself.", "speech": "noun", "video": "https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8ftDjebw8aA", "entry": 94, "hasQuotes": 1 }, "95": { "id": 95, "title": "waldosia", "non_latin_title": "waldosia", "author": "John Koenig", "authorPicture": "https:\/\/ideasofthevagabond.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/10\/john-koenig.jpg", "definition": "a condition characterized by scanning faces in a crowd looking for a specific person who would have no reason to be there, which is your brain\u2019s way of checking to see whether they\u2019re still in your life, subconsciously patting its emotional pockets before it leaves for the day.", "speech": "noun", "video": null, "entry": 95, "hasQuotes": 0 }, "96": { "id": 96, "title": "xeno", "non_latin_title": "xeno", "author": "John Koenig", "authorPicture": "https:\/\/ideasofthevagabond.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/10\/john-koenig.jpg", "definition": "the smallest measurable unit of human connection, typically exchanged between passing strangers\u2014a flirtatious glance, a sympathetic nod, a shared laugh about some odd coincidence\u2014moments that are fleeting and random but still contain powerful emotional nutrients that can alleviate the symptoms of feeling alone.", "speech": "noun", "video": null, "entry": 96, "hasQuotes": 0 }, "97": { "id": 97, "title": "y\u00f9 yi", "non_latin_title": "yu_yi", "author": "John Koenig", "authorPicture": "https:\/\/ideasofthevagabond.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/10\/john-koenig.jpg", "definition": "the desire to see with fresh eyes, and feel things just as intensely as you did when you were younger\u2014before expectations, before memory, before words.", "speech": "noun", "video": 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null, "entry": 99, "hasQuotes": 0 }, "100": { "id": 100, "title": "\u00e9nouement", "non_latin_title": "enouement", "author": "John Koenig", "authorPicture": "https:\/\/ideasofthevagabond.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/10\/john-koenig.jpg", "definition": "the bittersweetness of having arrived here in the future, where you can finally get the answers to how things turn out in the real world\u2014who your baby sister would become, what your friends would end up doing, where your choices would lead you, exactly when you\u2019d lose the people you took for granted\u2014which is priceless intel that you instinctively want to share with anybody who hadn\u2019t already made the journey, as if there was some part of you who had volunteered to stay behind, who was still stationed at a forgotten outpost somewhere in the past, still eagerly awaiting news from the front.", "speech": "noun", "video": null, "entry": 100, "hasQuotes": 0 } }