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Affogatia
CHAPTER:
Boats Against the Current
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CONCEPT:
Dès Vu
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Tags:
Loneliness-Detachment
Time-Memory
Familiar-Unfamiliar
Affogatia
n.
the weird loneliness of antiquated fads and memes and one-hit wonders, which tried so hard to capture their own era that they inadvertently became embedded in it.
Italian
affogato
, drowned. Pronounced “ah-fuh-
gat
-yuh.”
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