Jeff Christensen

Dance of Memes 0.1

You Do

Toska
тоска: (n) ache of soul, longing with nothing to long for 
Vladimir Nabokov, the famous Russian-American author of ‘Lolita,’ put it best: “No single word in English renders all the shades of ‘toska.’ At its deepest and most painful, it is a sensation of great spiritual anguish, often without any specific cause. At less morbid levels it is a dull ache of the soul, a longing with nothing to long for, a sick pining, a vague restlessness, mental throes, yearning. In particular cases it may be the desire for somebody of something specific, nostalgia, love-sickness. At the lowest level it grades into ennui, boredom.”


The piece is flawed in certain ways and at certain points (mainly in the timing) in order to better represent one of the characters depicted in the piece.

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