“Thinking about spaghetti that boils eternally but is never done is a sad, sad thing.”
Source: Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
“The sadness of things.”
—
Murasaki Shikibu
,
book
The Tale of Genji
Passim. Cf. Lacrimae rerum.
Variant translations:
The pathos of things.
A sensitivity to things.
The sorrow of human existence.
Tale of Genji
Original
Mono no aware.
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