Post #95014 by John in Montreal on Mon, Jun 7, 2004 11:18 AM

I think what's being described here is something along the lines of the Brazilian/Portuguese concept of "saudade" which is more or less a form of melancholy nostalgia... it's been described as "a feeling of nostalgic remembrance of people or things, absent or forever lost, accompanied by the desire to see or possess them once more."