Latigo

a blurry image of several men

Latigo

n.
a dizzying sense of awe at the sheer scale of modern society—looking out at a city so vast and complex it can barely be mapped, with millions of miles of roads and power lines and water mains that must be continually repaired and replaced every few years, feeding a labyrinth of supply chains and regulations and contracts and algorithms—a system so massive that individual people seem almost beside the point, that if everybody were to vanish all at once, the city would sigh and carry on its business.

From labyrinth, a maze of tortuous complexity + vertigo, the whirling sensation of looking down from great heights. Compare Spanish látigo, whip. Pronounced “lat-i-goh.”

Ludiosis

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Siso

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Catoptric Tristesse

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Kenaway

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Star-Stuck

a man walking towards a door with a large question mark

Scrough

a person working on the sidewalk

Tillid

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Poggled

a person studying a book with a magnifying glass

Ledsome

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Fygophobia

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Routwash

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Kinchy

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Kuebiko

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Anecdoche

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Aftergloom

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Anthrodynia

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Wytai

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Momophobia

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Nemotia

a city with clouds of smoke

Rookish

a stone tower with a person seated on top

Énouement

a hand opening a curtain

Harmonoia

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Heart Of Aces

a person covering their eyes with their hands

Nilous

a person standing at a bus terminal

Lap Year

several people racing bicycles uphill in a forest

Aponemia

a group of people standing together

Elsewise

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