From: The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
Eisce
Tags: Identity-Personality Senses-Perception Connection-Relation Eiscen.the awareness of the infinitesimal role you play in shaping your own society—knowing that whenever you smile at a stranger, pronounce a word a certain way, laugh at a certain joke, or choose the slightly shinier apple, you are unwittingly helping to construct the world in which you live—a role both vanishingly small but also somehow daunting, making it that much harder to complain about the traffic, knowing that you are traffic. Irish eisceacht, exception. Pronounced “ahy-shuh.” Tags: Identity-Personality Senses-Perception Connection-Relation CHAPTER: Faces in a Crowd CHAPTER:
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