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• Metaphasia: An inability to perceive metaphor. -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X
• Strangelove Reproduction: Having children to make up for the fact that one no longer believes in the future.
  -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X...
• Recurving: Leaving one job to take another that pays less but places one back on the learning curve.
  -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X...
• Occupational Slumming: Taking a job well beneath one's skill or education level as a means of retreat from adult responsibilities and/or avoiding possible failure in one's true occupation.
  -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X...
• Poor Buoyancy: The realization that one was a better person when one had less money.
  -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X...
• Mid-twenties Breakdown: A period of mental collapse occurring in one's twentie
  often caused by inability to function outside of school or structured environments coupled with a realization of one's essential aloneness in the world....
• McJob: A low-pay, low-prestige, low-dignity, low-benefit, no-future job in the service sector.
  Frequently considered a satisfying career choice by people who have never held one....
• Dorian Graying: The unwillingness to gracefully allow one's body to show signs of aging.
  -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X...
• Virgin Runway: A travel destination chosen in the hopes that no one else has chosen it.
  -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X...