essential oilspill
n. delight in pronouncing the names of your shampoo’s chemical ingredients—cocamidopropyl betaine, polyquaternium-10, methylchloroisothiazolinone—whose crisp syllables snap together like Legos, which momentarily reassures you that life is a cumulative stack of discrete accomplishments, not a shapeless continuum of extracts from abstracted tragedies like family, entropy, or papaya.
I do very much like this site, which offers new definitions for those things which we can’t define. Though the name does remind me of a chapter from Everything is Illuminated, in which young Yiddish gal Brod attempts to catalog all the peculiar sadnesses in the world that were previously unexpressed by words.
But this is good too.
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