In message <199511101433.AA272434037@casbah.acns.nwu.edu>, jeff@casbah.acns.nwu.edu writes:

what the HELL is ANGST?!?!?!  I've been reading stories with 'angst'
in them for over a year and STILL don't know just WHAT it IS! ARGH!

Angst is...hm.  The best I can come up with is, trials and troubles of a
romantic nature.

Angst: A gloomy, often neurotic feeling of generalized anxiety and 
        depression

Demure: 1. Decorous; modest; reserved 2. affextedly modest or shy; coy.

Webster's New World Dictionary of the American Language, second 
collefe edition, copyright 1970.

Angst: n. See *me*.

Angst-sensei's Dictionary of Useful Catch Phrases, constantly updating
edition, copyright 1995.

Just some random noise, since everybody else is doing it in *spades*.

Angst is the feeling you get after watching all 13 episodes of Gundam
0083, where they kill the main characters off, *just* as you were
starting to really like them.   It's also the feeling that makes you
wanna ball you hands up in fists, go out on some dark cliff somewhere
and scream at the universe just because.  One of the recent examples of
angst I've seen is Terry Bogard from the Fatal Fury games/OVA/Movies.
He's now had two girlfriends die while he was protecting them, both
because they sacrificed their life to save him.  This causes Angst.
Much Angst.

	-DaR
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Dan Root - dar@andrew.cmu.edu