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.”

Jouska

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Wildred

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Slipfast

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Trumspringa

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Merrenness

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La Cuna

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Idlewild

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Aubadoir

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Fitzcarraldo

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Elsewise

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Chrysalism

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Volander

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Scabulous

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Vulture Shock

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The Til

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Foreclearing

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Kairosclerosis

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Vulture Shock

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Kadot

a person looking at an abstract spiral

Nodrophobia

close-up of a stained shirt

Mithenness

a person standing on the side of a road

Fawtle

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Jouska

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Idlewild

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Angosis

a table full of food

The Giltwrights

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