{"id":3448,"date":"2017-04-06T17:30:55","date_gmt":"2017-04-06T22:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zepfhyr.com\/blog\/?p=3448"},"modified":"2019-01-11T20:26:55","modified_gmt":"2019-01-12T02:26:55","slug":"today-i-invented-an-emotion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zepfhyr.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/today-i-invented-an-emotion\/","title":{"rendered":"Today, I invented an emotion"},"content":{"rendered":"

A writer friend<\/a> of mine, yesterday, asked for suggestions on drugs that could be used to render a person unconscious when taken orally, but for a relatively short period of time ( about an hour). Many friends, myself included, responded with a variety of drugs that could plausibly be used for such a purpose, especially with a little creative writing (something at which Lezlie excels).<\/p>\n

After, she mentioned that she wasn’t sure if she should feel comforted or disturbed. So, not one to let such conflicting emotions leave so vexatious a feeling upon her mind, I invented a new emotion that combined the two. Using this quote<\/a> by John Kenneth Galbraith, I fittingly appropriated his name:<\/p>\n

galbraith
\ntransitive verb<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0 | \u00c2\u00a0gal\u00c2\u00b7braith \u00c2\u00a0| \u00c2\u00a0\\’gal- br\u00c4\u0081th<\/span>\\
\n1. to instill a sense of simultaneous\u00c2\u00a0comfort and discomfort \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 “Her surprise visit to find me at this secluded cabin that I never told\u00c2\u00a0her about has me very\u00c2\u00a0galbraithed<\/em>.”<\/p>\n

\"In<\/a><\/p>\n

Anyway, I don’t know that it will catch on. But I’m keeping it here, just in case future generations want to know the etymology of the word that best describes the comfortably familiar hellscape they live in after we’ve gone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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