Redefining misanthropy for a fresh generation. Standard posts begin with a definition from Ambrose Bierce's The Devil's Dictionary followed by a modern adjustment. Miscellany on Wednesday and storytelling on Saturday.
Friday, December 15, 2006
Homesick
HOMESICK, adj. Dead broke abroad.
2006 Update: The yearning for restoration as an abuser of foreign riff-raff.
HOMESICK, adj. The state of one who has discovered a greater evil. The condition of the space traveller who is fresh out of dilithium crystals, and the natives know nothing of subspace.
homesick a longing for that place where you're generally held in contempt and ignored, but loved anyway anyway; so you can feel free to go ahead and be yourself.
Homesick: the longing for the comfortable feeling of your native surroundings, usually inspired by too-stiff motel pillows or the expense of having to purchase every meal.
Homesick: That sick-of-being-home feeling that goes away as soon as you start your trip. Only to be replaced by that I-wish-I-were-home feeling that starts on the fifth or sixth day. Also see, There's just no pleasing you is there?
Thanks, Doug... yes, there's the karass thing. But then there's Bierce. I encountered the dictionary in my youth, which resonated immediately with my bitter adolescent heart.
Most of us have seen Enrico's film of An Occurance At Owl Creek Bridge. But it was part of a trilogy, In The Midst Of Life. The other two gems (Chickamauga and The Mockingbird) hardly anybody has seen. Neither, to my knowledge, ever made it to VHS or DVD. I saw The Mockingbird at a movie theater in Greenwich Village years ago. It was so poignant and haunting that I can still whistle its theme song thirty five years later. Although seen only once, it is and will always be one of the pictures on the wall of that home we've been talking about.
Joe, some of us never outgrew our bitter adolesccent hearts. I didn't realize Enrico made movies of What I Saw of Chickamauga or The Mockingbird. I'll have to see if Netflix has them or start looking for screenings. If you're interested, there are a few good sites, linked on the right under "Bierce Resources" that are more about Bierce than this one.
It is all about the quantity of honey that matters ;) In any shape or variety, anywhere on the face of this earth!
ReplyDelete"with a spoon full of sugar, the medicine goes down...in a most delightful way!"
oh and also, yes: I have to say, I hope you´ll forgive me, but:
ReplyDeleteok I am just gonna come out with it:
ready?
1ssssssssssssssssssttttttttttttt!
HOMESICK, adj. The state of one who has discovered a greater evil. The condition of the space traveller who is fresh out of dilithium crystals, and the natives know nothing of subspace.
ReplyDeleteHomesick: When nothing smells or tastes the same and all you can think of is your own bed.
ReplyDeleteHomesick: The symptoms accompanying the realization that, no matter where you go, there you are.
ReplyDeleteInteresting update, Doug.
...the call to my heart from the source
ReplyDeletehomesick a longing for that place where you're generally held in contempt and ignored, but loved anyway anyway; so you can feel free to go ahead and be yourself.
ReplyDeleteOk!!!, I take it you are homesick for foreign lands where you abused the *riff-raff......oh dear is * politically correct?
ReplyDeleteAs for my definition of homesick in a word.....Iceland
Homesick: What you tell the boss when you call in after that barely remembered holiday party. :)
ReplyDelete9nnnnnnnnthhhhhhhhhhhh!!!
When the domicile has an issue with asbestos. Or a tree crashes through the roof. Or the foundation settles. xoxo
ReplyDeleteHomesick: whetted appetite for the stale and/or moldy leftovers in your own fridge.
ReplyDeleteHa, ha, ha, haaaaaaa, ha, ha, ha, haaaaaaaa, ha, ha, ha, haaaaaaa, ha, ha, ha, haaaaaaa, ha, ha, ha, haaaaaaa, ha, ha, ha, haaaaaaa!
ReplyDeleteHa, ha, ha, haaaaa, ha, ha, ha, haaaaaaaa, ha, ha, ha, haaaaaaa, ha, ha, ha, haaaaaaaa, ha, ha, ha, haaaaaaaa!!!!
Nuff said!
Realizing that the grass isn't greener and the skies aren't bluer on the other side of the rainbow afterall.
ReplyDeleteYou prefer to be the abuser rather than the abusee, eh?
ReplyDeleteMinka, if you're expect me to clean your chimney, 'ave patience. I 'aven't even done mine.
ReplyDeleteOC, live long and prosper.
Mutha, so you eat in bed?
Thanks, Al. And you're right, no matter which Central European city I was in, I still didnt look like Cary Grant.
Welcome, Joe. Picked it up quick, didn't you?
Quill, contempt and ignorance are two of my favorite sympathies. Love's just the gravy.
Mo'a, Minka will be happy to hear that.
Brian, I'll hear it all weekend long.
Mireille, I should have known you'd follow the pun.
Mmmmmm, Puppybrose. Mold. Just like Mama used to make.
Hermana, that looks pretty.
Squaregirl, we'll see if you feel the same after going.
Logo, a man can only do what he was made to do.
I'm homesick for a visit here, but I have to run. So hi and goodbye.
ReplyDeleteOh and stop by The Snark for a little game of dreidl.
homesick: when you're tired of the people you're visiting.
ReplyDeleteAlthough I do like the "dead broke abroad" and MizB's maniacal laughter.
Homesick...the feeling that comes when this troll is out of the cave too long.
ReplyDeleteDoug: Yes, eating in bed that does not involve crumbs.
ReplyDeleteHomesick: We've all been there, at one time or another.
ReplyDeleteHOMESICK, adj. Dead broke abroad.
ReplyDeletewhata way to go!
welcome HOME, Doug!!
Gee...if I didn't know better I'd think Doug missed out with words like "home" "homesick"...
ReplyDeleteG to the, well, G nice of you to swing by.
ReplyDeleteJenna, I actually do get homesick for the dogs. Eating cows just isn't the same without bones to bring home.
Kyah, a little billy goat helps with that, I find.
Mutha, so, chili?
Sure have, Terry. I get nostalgic for those days.
Thanks, Karen. Good to be back, you caught yesterday's announcement, right?
Jenna, I'm just very, very particular about alphabetical order.
So then you're having a good time?
ReplyDeletehome sick: the woman in bed with pneumonia and/or the guy on the couch who just sneezed.
ReplyDeleteDoug: Crumbless. Exactly. If it is vegetarian, I'm game.
ReplyDeleteHomesick: the longing for the comfortable feeling of your native surroundings, usually inspired by too-stiff motel pillows or the expense of having to purchase every meal.
ReplyDeleteHomesick: That sick-of-being-home feeling that goes away as soon as you start your trip. Only to be replaced by that I-wish-I-were-home feeling that starts on the fifth or sixth day. Also see, There's just no pleasing you is there?
ReplyDeleteHaha, Lisa. Swell. Does Karma know you arose again?
ReplyDeletePuppybrose, give them each elderberry extract. I swear by it, although I never have found any.
Mutha, I forgot you had that defect.
Mushroom, its true business travel makes home look good. There's ennui and then there's the "what city is this again?" kind of boredom.
TLP, easy to please and hard to satisfy is a good motto.
homesick - What I tell my boss when I call in well.
ReplyDeletewhat, no Whole Foods Markets in Santa Clarita?
ReplyDeleteHaha, Poobah. I hear you.
ReplyDeleteHonestly, Puppy, I've never checked.
Thanks, Doug... yes, there's the karass thing. But then there's Bierce. I encountered the dictionary in my youth, which resonated immediately with my bitter adolescent heart.
ReplyDeleteMost of us have seen Enrico's film of An Occurance At Owl Creek Bridge. But it was part of a trilogy, In The Midst Of Life. The other two gems (Chickamauga and The Mockingbird) hardly anybody has seen. Neither, to my knowledge, ever made it to VHS or DVD. I saw The Mockingbird at a movie theater in Greenwich Village years ago. It was so poignant and haunting that I can still whistle its theme song thirty five years later. Although seen only once, it is and will always be one of the pictures on the wall of that home we've been talking about.
Joe, some of us never outgrew our bitter adolesccent hearts. I didn't realize Enrico made movies of What I Saw of Chickamauga or The Mockingbird. I'll have to see if Netflix has them or start looking for screenings. If you're interested, there are a few good sites, linked on the right under "Bierce Resources" that are more about Bierce than this one.
ReplyDeleteHomesick: About damn time you got back to open up my intellectual plaground. Nevermind I'm late to the return, I call tire swing!
ReplyDeleteHome: can't live with it, can't live without it.
ReplyDeleteHomesick:
ReplyDeleteNot at work or school due to illness real or feigned.
Oh, wait. That would be home, sick.