Merrenness

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Merrenness

n.
the lulling isolation of driving late at night—floating through the void in an otherworldly hum, trailing red jewels in the darkness, your high beams sweeping back and forth like a lighthouse.

Hungarian merre, where? in which direction? Pronounced “mair-uhn-nis.”

Merrenness

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Looseleft

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Harmonoia

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Justing

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The Til

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Slipfast

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La Cuna

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Treachery Of The Common

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Plata Rasa

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Idlewild

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Trumspringa

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Ghough

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Aubadoir

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Mahpiohanzia

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Gobo

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Licotic

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Foreclearing

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Exulansis

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Halfwise

a train coming towards the camera shot from the tracks

Exulansis

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Suente

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Hemeisis

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Grayshift

a spiral staircase from above

Fata Organa

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Lookaback

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Scrough

a person working on the sidewalk

Rialtoscuro

a blurry image of a light source