A Florid Tumblr for Your Fussiest Woes

Edith Zimmerman
The Hairpin
Published in
1 min readAug 31, 2011

“Aimonomia: n. fear that learning the name of something — a bird, a constellation, an attractive stranger — will somehow ruin it, transforming a lucky discovery into a conceptual husk pinned in a glass case, which leaves one less mystery to flutter around your head, trying to get in.”
— An entry from the breathy Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows. [Via]

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Edith Zimmerman
The Hairpin

Spiralbound editor. Formerly at The Hairpin. Also now making a newsletter: https://drawinglinks.substack.com