Vocabulary

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Hintergedanke

HINTERGEDANKE: NAGGING UNCONSCIOUS THOUGHT, ESP. ONE THAT UPSETS THE EQUILIBRIUM OF DOMINANT PERSPECTIVES OR WORLDVIEWS; THE ULTERIOR MOTIVE; THE HIDDEN SAYING. HINTERGEDENKEN: THINKING AGAINST, ESP. AGAINST THE ‘APPARENTLY SO’, THE ‘JUST-SO’ AND, ON OCCASION EVEN ‘THE GIVEN’; CHARACTERIZED BY “PLAYFULNESS, TROUBLESOME MEDDLING, ENLIGHTENED REVELATIONS, CONTRARINESS, AND ALL THE HAPPY INDETERMINABILITY OF THE ABYSS.” THE RIGHT FLY IN THE RIGHT OINTMENT.

 

(Excellent word discovery made whilst listening to Alan Watts "Out of Your Mind" on my iPod)

Comments

[kabuldur.livejournal.com]

Ha, ha, ha :) Just like the stuff I have been reading in preparation for next term (book in one hand, dictionary in the other).

Go individuality!

[walksbeauty.livejournal.com]

Love it! Figures ole' Mr Watts would use that one. Always has been such a wake-up kind of guy for me!

My name is Benicgne Extenze Rogas

[(Anonymous)]

That’s Too nice, when it comes in india hope it can make a Rocking place for youngster.. hope that come true.