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.”

Sitheless

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Treachery Of The Common

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Elosy

a blurry image of a person in a subway car

Redesis

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Punt Kick

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Tornomov

a cloudy sky and landscape

Povism

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Occhiolism

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Querinous

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Eigenschauung

Eigen-schauung

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Incidental Contact High

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Ioia

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