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Spanish pain, el dolor 67
dolor, ‘a violent wind of pain’. Dolor te azota, ‘whips you’ or ‘lashes you’ like
a vendaval, ‘gale’.
Viejo barrio de mi ensueño,
el de ranchitos iguales,
como a vos los vendavales
a mí me azotó el dolor.
[Old quarter of my dreams
Where all houses are the same
You were whipped by the winds
I was whipped by pain.]
Summing up, the dolor invoked in tangos, although mostly an emotional
pain, is so strong and intense that it is experienced physically. It is caused by the
lack of love and by loneliness, and is metaphorically associated with being imprisoned,
with darkness, strong wind and burden. It is as cruel and violent as
a BEAST.
4.2. NSM definition of dolor
The prototypical situation related to the emotion of dolor is that of the separation
from someone we love (c–e). This separation is caused by an unspecified
past event, either the person’s death or betrayal or the simple fact that this person
is gone (f). This event is perceived as inexorable (g). When we suffer from
dolor, we are forced to think about what happened (h). Because of those
thoughts about the past, we feel something very bad (i). Maybe a component ‘in
his or her body’ should be added here to give account of the fact that dolor is so
intense, that it can be experienced physically.
The definition below is based on a prototypical cognitive scenario (see Section
2) – someone who feels dolor feels something like a person does, who has
certain specifiable thoughts and is feeling something very bad because of them
(i–j).
dolor
(a) X feels something;
(b) sometimes a person thinks like this:
(c) something very bad happened to me some time before now,
(d) someone was like a part of me,
(e) when I was with this someone I felt something very good,
(f) something bad happened to this someone,
(g) I can’t be with this someone anymore,
(h) I can’t not think about it now;
(i) when this someone thinks like this this someone feels something very bad (in his body);
(j) X feels something like this.