Re: [microsound] why microsound? (idm crossthread) (skip if ya dont feel philiso

[Akira Rabelais <akirarabelais@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> why is david hastlehoff so damn popular outside of the usa? didnt those
> people get their memo?


Ima koko ni
Kaerimi sureba
Waga nasake
Yami o osorenu
Meshii ni Nitari

Come at last to this point
I look back on my passion
and realize that I
have been like a blind man
who is unafraid of the dark

   Yosano Akiko


 As to the divination which takes place in sleep, and is said to be based 
on dreams, we cannot lightly either dismiss it with contempt or give it 
implicit confidence. The fact that all persons, or many, suppose dreams to 
possess a special significance, tends to inspire us with belief in it [such 
divination], as founded on the testimony of experience; and indeed that 
divination in dreams should, as regards some subjects, be genuine, is not 
incredible, for it has a show of reason; from which one might form a like 
opinion also respecting all other dreams. Yet the fact of our seeing no 
probable cause to account for such divination tends to inspire us with 
distrust. For, in addition to its further unreasonableness, it is absurd to 
combine the idea that the sender of such dreams should be God with the fact 
that those to whom he sends them are not the best and wisest, but merely 
commonplace persons. If, however, we abstract from the causality of God, 
none of the other causes assigned appears probable. For that certain persons 
should have foresight in dreams concerning things destined to take place at 
the Pillars of Hercules, or on the banks of the Borysthenes, seems to be 
something to discover the explanation of which surpasses the wit of man.


nostalgia.
[a. mod.L. nostalgia (so It., Sp., Pg.; F. nostalgie (1802)), f. Gr. return 
home + pain.]
1. Path. A form of melancholia caused by prolonged absence from one's home 
or country; severe home-sickness.
1770 J. Banks Jrnl. in J. Cook Jrnls. (1955) I. 409 The greatest part of 
them [sc. the ship's company] were now pretty far gone with the longing for 
home which the Physicians have gone so far as to esteem a disease under the 
name of Nostalgia.
1780 Thacher Mil. Jrnl. (1823) 242 Many perplexing instances of 
indisposition,..called by Dr. Cullen nostalgia or home sickness.
1786 R. Hamilton in Edin. Med. Comm. XI. 343 History of a remarkable Case of 
Nostalgia.
1818 Syd. Smith Wks. (1867) I. 250 What a dreadful disease Nostalgia must be 
on the banks of the Missouri!
1856 Kane Arct. Expl. I. xiii. 145 He looked as wretched as any lover of a 
milder clime. I hope I have treated his nostalgia successfully.
1877 Owen in Wellesley's Desp. p. xlv, One who was to spend so much of his 
life in the East..should not be hampered by ties and habits calculated..to 
foster nostalgia.
transf.
1842 J. Wilson Chr. North I. 57 That pond has..about half-a-dozen trouts, if 
indeed they have not sickened and died of Nostalgia.
1861 Times 24 Sept., The principal object thought of appears to be the 
health of the trees,..that they might not suffer too much from nostalgia.
2. transf. Regret or sorrowful longing for the conditions of a past age; 
regretful or wistful memory or recall of an earlier time.
1920 D. H. Lawrence Lost Girl xv. 344 The terror, the agony, the nostalgia 
of the heathen past was a constant torture to her mediumistic soul.
1928 A. Waugh Nor Many Waters vi. 231 He pictures with a sense of nostalgia, 
too acute almost to be endured, all that marriage to Marian would have 
meant.
1933 D. Garnett Pocahontas xx. 234 Seeing all these things again filled her 
heart with that violent sentimental nostalgia..felt by the very young about 
the very recent past.
1943 Koestler in Tribune 26 Nov. 13/1 Even the names of Paris underground 
stations..become the nostalgia-imbued stimuli of conditioned reflexes.
1945 Auden For Time Being 37 We and They are united in the candid glare of 
the same commercial hope by day, and the soft refulgence of the same erotic 
nostalgia by night.
1951 L. P. Hartley My Fellow Devils xxxiii. 339 The faults for which she had 
been obliged to sack him no longer counted:..she was free to dwell with some 
nostalgia on his virtues.
1957 Listener 3 Oct. 512/1 When grown-ups become passionately interested in 
them [sc. children's books] some kind of nostalgia is involved.
1957 B. & C. Evans Dict. Contemp. Amer. Usage 322/2 Now a vogue word, 
nostalgia has come to mean any vague yearning, especially for the past and 
especially..when tinged with tenderness and sadness.
1959 Observer 8 Feb. 7/5 Nostalgia for one's childhood does not necessarily 
mean that the childhood was a happy one.
1971 Sunday Times 30 May 32/2 Nostalgia's all right, But it's not what it 
was.

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