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"'What do you hear when you listen to the city?'
Very few people knew enough to ask him that question; the young man should not have been one of them.
'Life and happy days.'
'And behind that?'
The impudent light was turned off. The questions came from deep down. When people ask something from a deep place, one must reply.
'Angst,' said Kasper. 'The same angst that's in every human being. But multiplied by one and a half million.'
'And behind the angst?'
'Who says there's anything behind it? Maybe the angst is the end.'"
- 'The Quiet Girl', Peter Høeg.
First thing I could come up with was taking a document and converting it into the language of the Isle of Man, "Manxed".
Angst (n): The anxious, apprehensive feeling you get, deep down in your soul, when you try to find a rhyme for "angst".