Spinning Playback Head

silhouette of a person looking out a window

Spinning Playback Head

n.
the disorienting feeling of meeting back up with an old friend and realizing that you’ve become different people on divergent paths—that even though they’re standing right in front of you, the person you once knew isn’t really there anymore.

After the part of a VCR that reads the signal on a videotape.

Epistrix

several doors standing in a dark room

Aftersome

rows of opaque and clear marbles

Daguerreologue

Daguer-reologue

a man sitting in blurred silhouette at a desk

Archimony

a person looking at broken furniture

Austice

a leaf imprint in the mud

Vellichor

shelves with many books stacked and organized

Halfwise

a train coming towards the camera shot from the tracks

Inerrata

a hand holding a broken cup

Tirosy

a close-up of a young child's face

Pithered

stacks of papers and folders piled high on a table

O’Erpine

a person looking at a grave

Harke

a dreamlike image of a person's face over water

Keyframe

a large rock in the water with emanating ripples

Backmasking

a woman's face with a double exposure

Ecury

a close-up of cave drawings and symbols

Blinkback

a wall full of pictures and objects

Zysia

a kite soaring above an empty landscape

Present-Tense

a close-up of a stopwatch

Mogging Folly

a person sitting on a bench

Lisolia

a bookcase containing objects

Idlewild

Cover image for the Idlewild word card on the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

Anticious

a group of men in hats looking at elevated signage

Hiddled

Cover image for the Hiddled word card on the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

Caucic

a close-up of a stone walking path

Allope

Cover image for the Allope word card on the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

Aponemia

a group of people standing together

Keep

Cover image for the Keep word card on the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows