Friday, 26 July 2013

The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows


A man takes a camera into the elevator of a London tower block everyday. Gradually, the inhabitants become more familiar with him, through small, daily interactions.

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n. the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own—populated with their own ambitions, friends, routines, worries and inherited craziness—an epic story that continues invisibly around you like an anthill sprawling deep underground, with elaborate passageways to thousands of other lives that you’ll never know existed, in which you might appear only once, as an extra sipping coffee in the background, as a blur of traffic passing on the highway, as a lighted window at dusk.

I suggest watching all 24 minutes of the video. After that, read
The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, from which the above definition was taken.

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