一生只有一具身体、一次只能站在一处的恼——世界这么大，你的地图上几乎全是「没去过」。 The frustration of being stuck in just one body, that inhabits only one place at a time.
The frustration of being stuck in just one body, that inhabits only one place at a time. 一生只有一具身体、一次只能站在一处的恼——世界这么大，你的地图上几乎全是「没去过」。
词源etymology
Koenig 自己公布的配方：monism（一元论）× onanism——「一」的哲学，加上自足自耗的暗影： 被自己这一具身体圈养，风景只能靠想象补给。
Koenig’s own recipe: monism × onanism — the philosophy of the One, shadowed by self-containment: penned inside your single body, all other landscapes supplied by imagination.
背景the story
《晦涩悲伤词典》2014 年词条。那段机场出发屏的比喻（见下方引文）是 DOS 传播最广的句子之一： 陌生地名「像别人的密码」——一屏幕你登录不进去的人生。
它和 Fernweh 是一对：Fernweh 疼的是「远方在远处」，onism 恼的是**「我只有一个我」**—— 前者是地理病，后者是存在论病。
A 2014 Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows entry. The departures-screen figure (quoted below) is among DOS’s most traveled sentences: strange place names “like other people’s passwords” — a whole screen of lives you cannot log into.
It pairs with Fernweh: Fernweh aches because the far away is far; onism chafes because there is only one of you — the first a geographic ailment, the second an ontological one.
中文里的邻居neighbors in chinese
「恨不能分身」是它的口语版，但那多半在抱怨日程；onism 把这句话推到底： 不是这周太忙，是一生只有一条世界线。 「弱水三千，只取一瓢」是同一处境的另一种表情——认了，且认得体面； onism 不认，它站在出发屏前不肯走。
恨不能分身 — “if only I could split myself” — is its spoken cousin, but usually complains about a calendar; onism pushes the sentence to the floor: not a busy week, but one worldline per life. 弱水三千，只取一瓢 — “of three thousand rivers, one ladleful” — is the same predicament wearing acceptance, gracefully. onism does not accept; it stands at the departures screen and will not move along.
The frustration of being stuck in just one body, that inhabits only one place at a time, which is like standing in front of the departures screen at an airport, flickering over with strange place names like other people's passwords, each representing one more thing you'll never get to see before you die.被困在仅有的一具身体里、一次只能待在一个地方的恼——就像站在机场的出发屏前，屏上闪着陌生的地名，像别人的密码，每一个都代表一样你到死也看不成的东西。（中译） John Koenig John Koenig · The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows · 2014
The night train map on the hostel wall gave her a hard attack of onism; six lines, one lifetime. 自拟例句 our own example, not a quotation Onism is the tax on every choice — pick a city and you pay in all the others. 自拟例句 our own example, not a quotation 不在词典中。 非正式与创意写作；写旅行、写选择、写「三十岁才明白人生是单行道」的段落， 它在岗。
Not in any dictionary. Informal and creative writing; for travel essays, essays on choosing, and the paragraph where you realize life is a one-lane road — it is on duty.