and it ended when circumstances caused each to feel that the one’s interest was not the chief consideration in the other’s thoughts.
Emily Brontë: Wuthering Heights
Schlagwort: Gedanken
Circumstände.
Gedanken, los.
[...] aber jetzt wurden die Gedanken so sanft und angenehm vage, daß es schade gewesen wäre, sie durch Konzentration zu stören.
Pascal Mercier: Perlmanns Schweigen
Brainfarts.
Apparently the part of the brain that identified things as funny kept running as a background process even when its contributions were useless.
Neal Stephenson: Seveneves
Worrycation.
A problem with holidays is that they leave us more time to worry about the world than those weeks where the world keeps us busy.
Alter-nativen.
That merely glimpsing three good wooden boxes on a baggage-wain could lead to such broodings made Daniel wonder that he could get out of bed in the morning. Once, he had feared that old age would bring senility; now, he was certain it would slowly paralyze him by encumbering each tiny thing with all sorts of significations.
Neal Stephenson: The System of the World