To begin, a definition from wikipedia, which is good:
"Weltschmerz (from the German, meaning world-pain or world-weariness, pronounced [ˈvɛltʃmɛɐ̯ts]) is a term coined by the German author Jean Paul and denotes the kind of feeling experienced by someone who understands that physical reality can never satisfy the demands of the mind. "
A foreign word to express an idea that has never really been properly acknowledged in english vocabulary. Like savoir-faire, but gloomier.
The observant reader (that's you) will have noticed that I misspelt weltschmerz in the title (you didn't notice, did you? That's okay. We'll pretend you did). I could easily claim that this was a deliberate mistake - who would know otherwise?
But it wasn't. It was a dumb mistake. Which just goes to show.
I thought about calling the blog The Good, The Bad and The Stupid but... I didn't.
But that's what it is. An irregular and haphazard look at some things in life that are good (e.g. wikipedia), some that are bad (e.g. Marco Pierre White) and some that are stupid (tbc).
Why? Who knows.
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