Eftless

a person with hands pressed on a window

Eftless

adj.
mildly disappointed that you’ll never be able to attend your own memorial service; frustrated that you could spend your entire life trying to build some sort of legacy to leave behind, but just barely miss your chance to catch a glimpse of what that legacy might be.

German Effekt, effect + less. As he was dying at age forty, Franz Kafka instructed his friend Max Brod to burn all his literary works upon his death, but Brod famously defied the request and published them to worldwide acclaim. At the time, Max Brod had been a household name, a celebrated author whose first novel was hailed as a masterpiece. Meanwhile, Kafka had spent his life walking the streets of Prague as a complete unknown, and died without ever suspecting that his hometown would soon become synonymous with his name. The world had been unequivocal in its judgment of the two writers, but posterity soon overturned the verdict.

Eftless

a person with hands pressed on a window

Grayshift

a spiral staircase from above

Rialtoscuro

a blurry image of a light source

Achenia

a close-up of a bottle with an organic object inside

Hem-Jawed

an abstract image of someone touching their face

Wollah

a person with shapes raining on them

Karanoia

a neat stack of white paper

Irrition

a close up of a dandelion

Adomania

a person riding a horse

Nilous

a person standing at a bus terminal

Rookish

a stone tower with a person seated on top

Angosis

a table full of food

Suerza

a tunnel with a light emanating from the end

Beloiter

a person sitting at a slot machine

Galagog

a person alone in a snowy desolate landscape

Ecsis

a hand holding a fossil

Boorance

a group of objects on a table

Elosy

a blurry image of a person in a subway car

Elsing

Chrysalism

Rialtoscuro

a blurry image of a light source

Querinous

Anchorage

a person's arm extended over river rapids

Kerisl

piles of old books scattered in an abandoned room

Incidental Contact High

Mal De Coucou

a blurry image of several men

Mimeomia

a person wearing an animal onesie garment