The World According to Spart

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Dorruhesturm or the Empress Strikes Back

Dorruhesturm or the Empress Strikes Back

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These last Xmas holidays, the FOS (family of Spartacus) gave me a nice little book:

Schottenfreude: German Words for the Human Condition

The book lists a number of words which have that special German onomatopoeic feel to them. And one such word is dorruhesturm which is defined to mean:

the fugue state between a death and the funeral

Much like in my post y…

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