Sunday, March 20, 2005

Winokur

cell yell
Loud talking on cell phones in public places by people with the apparent neurotic need to invade their own privacy.

guilt
Traditionally, remorse over having done something wrong; self-reproach for some moral failure. Now, a chronic, free-floating, unarticulated malaise, a festering sense of existential worthlessness. And then you feel guilty for feeling guilty.

(Jon Winokur, from "Encyclopedia Neurotica," excerpted in Utne, April 2005)

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