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01 March 2006

What would you call "nostalgia for a time before you were born"? →[More:](yes, this same question is in "Word Fugitives" in this month's Atlantic)

post by: cmonkey at: 12:56 | 25 comments

prenatalgia

posted by me3dia 01 March | 12:58

fauxstalgia? remin-miss-ence?

posted by Capn 01 March | 13:00

Ooh, fauxstalgia's really good.

posted by cmonkey 01 March | 13:03

A waste of time.

posted by Eideteker 01 March | 13:10

reminisn'ts.

posted by Wolfdog 01 March | 13:12

reminisn'ts.

Brilliant.

posted by iconomy 01 March | 13:13

What do you call the feeling when you see a picture of a 17 year old girl at a recent Rolling Stones concert and realize that she's not listening to her parent's music, she's listening to her grandparent's music, and that if this were the case in the 60's, Woodstock would have featured all the Vaudville acts and stars of silent film?

posted by Capn 01 March | 13:13

I like Ike
(and me3dia's id3a).

posted by danostuporstar 01 March | 13:21

Wombderlust

posted by rainbaby 01 March | 13:25

ahistorical

posted by Miko 01 March | 13:41

Capn, it depends. Is she sexy and seventeen?

posted by Hugh Janus 01 March | 13:48

Prestalgia?
Notstalgia?

posted by sisterhavana 01 March | 13:59

Good taste.

Give me the Regency, Victorian and Edwardian times. Things went to shit with the Great War.

posted by warbaby 01 March | 14:03

Give me the Regency, Victorian and Edwardian times.

I've always fancied myself a ballsy broad in the Katherine Hepburn/Bette Davis mould. I like a man in a natty suit and overcoat.

posted by jrossi4r 01 March | 14:17

False.

posted by omiewise 01 March | 14:18

if this were the case in the 60's, Woodstock would have featured all the Vaudville acts and stars of silent film?

Almost all of the music at Woodstock was inspired by or even directly derived from the blues.

The Rolling Stones certainly were.

posted by stilicho 01 March | 14:20

Yes, but there's a difference between deriving from a kind of music and THE SAME 50 YEAR OLD BAND PLAYING THE SAME MUSIC

posted by Capn 01 March | 14:26

deja blue?

posted by taz 01 March | 14:43

Yes, but there's a difference between deriving from a kind of music and THE SAME 50 YEAR OLD BAND PLAYING THE SAME MUSIC

That's immaterial, Capn -- is she sexy?

posted by Hugh Janus 01 March | 14:52

It's my thought experiment Hugh so... yes, very much so.

posted by Capn 01 March | 15:11

Then she's your little rock'n'roll queen, Capn.

In my typos I call you Capon.

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posted by Hugh Janus 01 March | 15:21

Um, I'd call it romanticism. Longing for an imagined "golden age of man" or something. This has been a recurrent meme in western literature since Rome.

Give me the Regency, Victorian and Edwardian times.

Once you get used to them, those empire waists are kind of sexy.

posted by pieisexactlythree 01 March | 15:27

ephemeral?

posted by chewatadistance 01 March | 16:38

Even though it's not technically the correct defintion, I've always thought of Weltschmerz as something that stems from homesickness for a place you've never been or that doesn't exist. (I feel as though I got this from a book, but I can't for the life of me remember which one...)

It seems equally appropriate in this context, although I'm sure nitpickers and linguists (I'm pointing no fingers here, but I'm sure you know who you are...) will disagree, vehemently.

Also, I apologize for not coming up with a cute pun.

posted by dersins 01 March | 17:45

In Japan, the concept of furusato, "hometown" or "old village," carries with it a nostalgia for a place (and often time) where one didn't necessarily grow up.

Kind of reminds me of the Stand By Me/50's craze of the early-mid-80's in the US.

posted by Hugh Janus 02 March | 09:35

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