Emotions aren't covered by single words. I don't believe in ‘sadness’, ‘joy’, or ‘regret’. The best proof that the language is patriarchal is that it over-simplifies feeling. I'd like to have at my disposal complicated hybrid emotions, Germanic train-car constructions like, say, ‘the happiness that attends disaster’. I'd like to show how ‘intimations of mortality brought on by aging family members’ connects with ‘the hatred’ of mirrors that begins in middle age.