Undefined Ideas

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When someone sees your future in terms of your past

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Question 2

When someone sees your future in terms of their own past; when they have always done so; or your realization of this fact

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Question 3

False excitement or enthusiasm about something too painful to endure

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Question 4

The pain of the soul growing while still bound by the unyielding cords of expectation

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Question 5

The realization that one’s words have been poisoned; the subsequent heartsick acceptance of silence

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Question 6

Shame felt vicariously for those who are unashamed of their deeds

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Question 7

The feelings accrued over a (long) period of time, even a lifetime, of being able to disagree

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Question 8

The dread of one’s ideas perishing unshared or unknown

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Question 9

The realization (in either sense) of a double standard

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Question 10

The sensation, always enervating, that one has no time to deal with evil, or that one is tolerating evil out of any apparently dismal or weak expediency.

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Question 11

The feeling of hilarity when confronted with insurmountable opposition to reason, particularly self-delusion

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Question 12

The feeling of loneliness accompanying any commitment to what is felt to be truth

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Question 13

Particularly, a kind of boredom felt when confronting an intractable person or situation.

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Question 14

In a bad situation, the awful sense that any remedial effort (i.e. Speech) will inevitably worsen the situation, and not improve it

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Question 15

Agency and contentment being at odds; the realization or recognition of this sensation, particularly when it seemed not always to be so (i.e. Agency and contentment used to seem united)

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Question 16

Sickness at hypocrisy above all other abuses

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Question 17

Fear of being misunderstood

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Question 18

A strange, highly particular feeling of guilt, namely that one has, in the eyes of another, murdered one’s former self, rather than simply “changed”

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Question 19

Captivity to the expectations of others; the sensation of this

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Question 20

The thought or suspicion that ignorance and not knowledge is power

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Question 21

Suspicion of hypocrisy in oneself; experiencing this frequently or constantly, usually with uncertainty over why this should be the case

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Question 22

A particular emotion of terror felt by someone who is of two minds on some important subject

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Question 23

Being regretted or lamented precisely for those qualities one wishes (or expects) to be celebrated for, of for which one celebrates oneself

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Question 24

The feeling of being unchosen, or of never having been chosen in the way one understood

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Question 25

An unexpected confrontation with the limits of another’s tolerance, respect, or love

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Question 26

A shift in one’s understanding of one’s place in a community of cosmos; also, the retrovisionary or retroscriptive nature of this shift (i.e. My place now appears to always-have-been_____; my place turns out to never-have-been_____”)

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Question 27

The embarrassment or shame accompanying the realization that one has been lamenting tragic circumstances without fully realizing the extent of their tragedy

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Question 28

A fear, perhaps bordering on phobia, of being gaslighted

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Question 29

The concern that one’s satire has been taken seriously.

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Question 30

After becoming sick of melancholy art, the comical moment of relief experienced after taking a deep breath

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Question 31

The name of the body position I tend to sleep in

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Question 32

The term for slouching so much you’re almost on your back

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Question 33

The feeling of waking up to a higher level of self-awareness, other-awareness, and world-awareness and perceiving one’s previous stage of slumber with surprise

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Question 34

Not surrealist or magical or allegorical but anti-realist

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Question 35

Not dystopian on a grand scale but elements of it are present.

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