Fitzcarraldo

Fitzcarraldo

n.
a random image that becomes lodged deep in your brain—maybe washed there by a dream, or smuggled inside a book, or planted during a casual conversation—which then grows into a wild and impractical vision that keeps scrambling around in your head, itching for a chance to leap headlong into reality.

From the title character of the 1982 film Fitzcarraldo, directed by Werner Herzog, about a man who is overcome by the thought of hearing Caruso’s operatic tenor echoing through the Peruvian jungle; to fund this effort he hires local people to pull a steamship over a mountain, a feat that was done for real for the film’s production. Pronounced “fits-kuh-rawl-doh.”

Jouska

Foreclearing

Occhiolism

Ameneurosis

Mahpiohanzia

Chrysalism

The Til

Idlewild

Treachery Of The Common

Looseleft

Licotic

La Cuna

Merrenness

Zielschmerz

Harmonoia

The Kick Drop

Trumspringa

Gobo

Leidenfreude

Foreclearing

Burn Upon Reentry

Aftersome

rows of opaque and clear marbles

Jouska

Mithenness

a person standing on the side of a road

Evertheless

a person floating in water

Wenbane

a person standing on a ledge looking at a city skyline

Eigenschauung

Eigen-schauung