Become Lighter Over Time

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homesickness

is prompted simply by one's being absent and any art of recollection would be to be able to feel homesickness even though one is at home.

The art of recollecting is not easy, because in the moment of preparation it can become something different, whereas memory merely fluctuates between remembering correctly and remembering incorrectly. For example, what is homesickness' It is something remembered that is recollected. Homesick-ness is prompted simply by one's being absent. The art would be to be able to feel homesickness even though one is at home. This takes proficiency in illusion.

is not always a vague, nostalgic, almost beautiful emotion.It can be a terribly keen blade, making the faces one sees in the street ugly, even malignant. It is a real sickness-- the ache of the uprooted plant.

Homesickness is not always a vague, nostalgic, almost beautiful emotion, although that is somehow the way we always seem to picture it in our mind. It can be a terribly keen blade, not just a sickness in metaphor but in fact as well. It can change the way one looks at the world... the faces one sees in the street look not just indifferent but ugly. . . perhaps even malignant. Homesickness is a real sickness-- the ache of the uprooted plant.'

is our base-line state. Today, everybody must be always just a little homesick.

I suppose everybody must be always just a little homesick. Joseph Conrad

is to want something back that was never there.

is the only disease that does not require rest.

homesickness, n.All

homesickness