halatnost

[extemporanea]

Owing to infection by the above word, 'tis a day for random linkery.

• Cultural Snow is the source of said happy-making word:
  
  ...Ivan Goncharov's idle anti-hero Oblomov ... gave the Russian language the glorious abstract noun "halatnost", literally "dressing-gown-ness", a state of intertia, apathy, daydreaming and general blaaah.
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Comments

[strawberryfrog]

the word "halatnost" doesn't actually appear in a David Bowie lyric.

Bowie must be told. Only he can rectify this lack. Assuming that he can be roused from his dressing-gown.

[extemporanea]

I can seriously see David Bowie carrying off a dressing gown, actually. With louche and slightly feral charm. Although possibly I'm just having flashbacks to The Hunger.