Folie à Deux (with Sarah)

I   W I L L   F I N D   T H E    W O R D S 

K O Y A A N I S Q U A T I

A way of life that is so crazy it calls for a new way of living.

W A B I 

A flawed detail that creates an elegant whole.

T O S K A 

It may be the desire for somebody of something specific, nostalgia, love-sickness. At the lowest level it grades into ennui, boredom. Vladmir Nabokov describes 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.

K I L I G 

Usually associated with romance and the phenomenon of butterflies in one’s stomach. However it’s generally more positive (vs. the butterflies being present in moments of anxiety/nervousness as well), and is more of a jolt-like and/or tingly/tickly feeling

J U N G  

A special feeling that is stronger than mere love and can only often be proved by having survived a huge argument with someone.

L I T O S T

The closest definition is a state of agony and torment created by the sudden sight of one’s own misery. Milan Kundera, author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being, remarked that “As for the meaning of this word, I have looked in vain in other languages for an equivalent, though I find it difficult to imagine how anyone can understand the human soul without it.”

Y A ’ A B U R N E E

“You bury me,” a declaration of one’s hope that they’ll die before another person, because of how difficult it would be to live without them.

We All Need Someone to Look at Us.

We can be divided into four categories according to the kind of look we wish to live under.

The first category longs for the look of an infinite number of anonymous eyes, in other words, for the look of the public…The German singer, the American actress… Nothing could replace the look of unknown eyes.

The second category is made up of people who have a vital need to be looked at by many known eyes. They are the tireless hosts of cocktail parties and dinners. They are happier than the people in the first category, who, when they lose their public, have the feeling that the lights have gone out in the room of their lives. This happens to nearly all of them sooner or later. People in the second category, however, can always come up with the eyes that they need. 

Then there is the third category, the category of people who need to be constantly before the eyes of the person they love. Their situation is as dangerous as the situation of the people in the first category. One day the eyes of their beloved will close and the room will go dark. 

And finally there is the fourth category, the rarest, the category of people who live in the imaginary eyes of those who are not present. They are the dreamers.

- All text from ‘The Unbearable Lightness of Being’ by Milan Kundera

The XX - Open Eyes (Demo)

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