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The Queue: Hiraeth

Hiraeth is a hard word to define, and I’m not a native Welsh speaker by any stretch, so it’s just a thing I feel from time to time. It’s similar to saudade, the Portuguese word — both are often described as a kind of melancholic longing for something one loves that is in some way gone or unattainable, be it through death, having lost contact with it, or perhaps through realizing that it never was in the first place.

It’s February and March is fast approaching, and I’m reminded of Thomas Wolfe. “O lost, and by the wind grieved, ghost, come back again.” But of course it can’t, and so it won’t — the past is the only place it exists. All we can do is remember.

Yeah, I’m feeling cheerful tonight. This is the Queue. Let’s talk about Blizzard games.

“You’re perfect yes, it’s true/ But without me, you’re only you.”

Oh, and there may be spoilers for Legion in this Queue. Fair warning.


The Queue: Just you wait

The day after a birthday is the worst. The presents have been opened and no new surprises await you. You feel awful because you ate way too much cake and ice cream — and worse, today will be a boring cake-free day. Ugh!

Well, we’ll have to persevere anyway. Today I am answering questions with my co-conspirator Mitch, who is definitely not quietly planning a major regime change.


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