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There's a word for everything - probably including 'the not-knowing there's a word for something'!
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That would be 'senility' wouldn't it, Jim?
Sometimes we have to trawl through several other languages to find what we want. For instance, I’ve never found a single word in English to correspond with ‘frisson’ when describing that delicious feeling that runs up the spine when in the presence of exceptional beauty - especially nature and music, in my case
Pareidolia was a new one on me too. I’ve known of the activity it describes ever since I read some of da Vinci’s notebooks. Ref.
"If you look at walls that are stained or made of different kinds of stones you can think you see in them certain picturesque views of mountains, rivers, rocks, trees, plains, broad valleys, and hills of different shapes. You can also find in them battles and rapidly moving figures, strange faces and costumes, as well as an infinite number of things."
He talked at length about the technique and it’s a great way of getting ideas for fantasy work.
When I get obsessed with art, I don’t miss a moment. I even kept a sketchbook and pencil in the loo once
There was a rug on the floor, and the pile was constantly shifted about by people coming and going. Whenever I looked at it, I saw different things, so one day I decided to draw them. Not great art, but certainly great fun <g>
