Owen Massey McKnight ([info]addedentry) wrote,
@ 2003-10-13 15:45:00
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The modern disease
I am cataloguing a nineteenth-century dissertation which claims - like the chestnut about determining the weight of the human soul with the aid of a dying man and some very accurate scales - that nostalgia has clinically observable consequences. I don't have anything to say; I'm simply pleased with the phrase 'The pathology of nostalgia'.


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[info]sloopjonb
2003-10-13 08:10 am UTC (link)
Hoh, yes, pathology of nostalgia. Anyone not convinced that nostalgia is a communicable disease has never read the Daily Mail.

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