Malaise, n. a vague or unfocused feeling of mental uneasiness,lethargy, or discomfort. If I remember correctly, my younger sister once had a gerbil which she named "Malaise." It would have been somewhere around junior-high time for her, and she acquired the gerbil during a period of, well... malaise.  If I remember correctly, our cat dragged that gerbil backward out of the cage by its tail … Continue reading The Death of Malaise