tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8281925592595958318.post6125743611968976899..comments2024-01-05T19:27:47.609+00:00Comments on Janine Ashbless: SehnsuchtJanine Ashblesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00840188081214225153noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8281925592595958318.post-73217245396717215282017-01-31T21:44:38.763+00:002017-01-31T21:44:38.763+00:00I've had this feeling for the last twenty year...I've had this feeling for the last twenty years but could never put a word to it. I was talking with someone about it last week and joked that there must be at least one language on earth that has a word for it, maybe the Germans? By total chance I stumbled onto this word yesterday. And I'll be damned, it turned out to be German!<br /><br />So now I'm reading about others experiences and expressions of this feeling now and it's simply amazing. Having a word for it and knowing that others experience it is... a variety of things. Overwhelming. And awesome. <br /><br />Thanks for writing this blog entry. :) (found it by Googling sehnsucht Zwitnscher)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8281925592595958318.post-32691033793423344602014-04-14T15:07:10.740+01:002014-04-14T15:07:10.740+01:00Yes Nym, strong associations with writing inspirat...Yes Nym, strong associations with writing inspiration for me too! :-)<br /><br />I'm fascinated by the idea that we don't really know what we feel until we have a word for it ... language creates reality.Janine Ashblesshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00840188081214225153noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8281925592595958318.post-70843178974057299282014-04-13T00:53:44.049+01:002014-04-13T00:53:44.049+01:00Wow. You've just described something that I...Wow. You've just described something that I'm intimately familiar with. Especially the way landscape triggers it. I strongly associate it with my writing muse.<br />Thanks for this post. It was fascinating.(And I have a great new word now.)Nym Nixnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8281925592595958318.post-75817769905541011922014-04-10T12:41:25.745+01:002014-04-10T12:41:25.745+01:00I'm sure almost all fantasy is, Horsethorn.
I...I'm sure almost all fantasy is, Horsethorn.<br /><br />I clearly remember the first time I went on a LARP overland (at 19ish) and my thoughts were "That's it! There *is* a magic door through the back of the Wardrobe! I made it through!"Janine Ashblesshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00840188081214225153noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8281925592595958318.post-36134761142837408732014-04-10T12:38:18.019+01:002014-04-10T12:38:18.019+01:00Jeremy -
1) you are a natural Buddhist
2) That...Jeremy - <br />1) you are a natural Buddhist<br />2) That's what erotic fiction is for!<br />;-)Janine Ashblesshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00840188081214225153noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8281925592595958318.post-4451538964308526542014-04-10T10:37:57.890+01:002014-04-10T10:37:57.890+01:00Good to know it's not just me. Is RP/LARP an a...Good to know it's not just me. Is RP/LARP an attempt to find the place that doesn't exist?horsethornnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8281925592595958318.post-15118891632060872172014-04-09T23:31:12.376+01:002014-04-09T23:31:12.376+01:00We are none of us alone, it seems :-)
We are none of us alone, it seems :-)<br /><br />Janine Ashblesshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00840188081214225153noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8281925592595958318.post-54370154200347816072014-04-09T23:01:16.378+01:002014-04-09T23:01:16.378+01:00Oh. ... This just makes sense.... I get this! I di...Oh. ... This just makes sense.... I get this! I didn't know it was a thing :) I feel less sort of weird now!!! I know exactly what you mean, sometimes a place or a moment just makes you feel everything x Lexie Bayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09521978155409794567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8281925592595958318.post-67143833396767395762014-04-09T19:02:32.184+01:002014-04-09T19:02:32.184+01:00Oh, this is very familiar. Oh, this is very familiar. Johttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08988685736635515808noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8281925592595958318.post-41835449878159250612014-04-09T18:55:00.111+01:002014-04-09T18:55:00.111+01:00Two things that sehnsucht feels related to, for me...Two things that <i>sehnsucht</i> feels related to, for me:<br /><br />1. Feeling wistful about a situation <i>while it's happening</i>. An example, for me, might be enjoying a delightful outdoor party on a beautiful summer evening, with drinks and laughter and a sense of magic, and feeling simultaneously giddy with joy over the atmosphere and a little prematurely nostalgically melancholy over the party's ephemerality.<br /><br />2. The part of erotic desire that's never really satisfied, no matter how perfect and fulfilling a sexual experience is going to be: the part that knows, going into a sexual experience, that there's a level on which desire hungers for something transcendently and permanently erotic in a way that's beyond the grasp of human sexuality (or at least <i>my</i> human sexuality).Jeremy Edwardshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01980177431018869829noreply@blogger.com