I read this interesting thing about the word "nostalgia," which is often used about my writing: that it comes from a term ship doctors used to describe a disease when sailors had been out to sea for a few years and were getting homesick. I've always had that, in terms of writing, this thing that is physical,that makes you homesick.


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I read this interesting thing about the word nostalgia, which is often used about my writing: that it comes from a term ship doctors used to describe ...

I read this interesting thing about the word nostalgia, which is often used about my writing: that it comes from a term ship doctors used to describe ...

I read this interesting thing about the word nostalgia, which is often used about my writing: that it comes from a term ship doctors used to describe ...

I read this interesting thing about the word nostalgia, which is often used about my writing: that it comes from a term ship doctors used to describe ...