Plastic Prose
Crytoscopophilia describes the urge to look through other people’s windows as you walk past. A new word for me and quickly becoming a firm favourite in my lexicon as well as an enjoyable pastime. This word discovery led me to wonder what might be the equivalent for ‘the desire to keep things clean’. A quick google search came back fruitless. The closest we may have seems to be ‘neatfreak’ at best and, at worst, Obsessive compulsive Disorder. Neither are attractive sounding. While I am certainly none of the above (my mother will willingly attest to this) I have found myself growing steadily more concerned about the state and cleanliness of our outside world. Instead of a philia, perhaps more accurate a word would be ‘phobia’, not of dirt but plastic and its damage causing potential. This feeling has only heightened since travelling around South East Asia and now living in Vietnam’s commercial capital, Ho Chi Minh city. To say that there is an obsession with plastic in