Moledro

Moledro

n.
a feeling of resonant connection with an author or artist you’ll never meet, who may have lived centuries ago and thousands of miles away but can still get inside your head and leave behind morsels of their experience, like the little piles of stones left by hikers that mark a hidden path through unfamiliar territory.

Portuguese moledro, cairn. According to Portuguese legend, if you take a stone from a cairn and put it under a pillow, in the morning an enchanted soldier will appear for a moment, before transforming back into the stone and returning to the pile. Pronounced “moh-leh-droh.”

Sitheless

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Ochisia

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Etherness

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Attriage

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Mauerbauertraurigkeit

Mauerbauer-traurigkeit

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The Mcfly Effect

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Bye-Over

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Waldosia

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Amoransia

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Ecstatic Shock

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Nachlophobia

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Fardle-Din

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Lilo

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Heartworm

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Thrapt

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Hubilance

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Dolorblindness

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Inerrata

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Anthrodynia

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The Wends

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Licotic

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Rückkehrunruhe

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Zverism

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Clockwise

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Eigenschauung

Eigen-schauung

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Querinous

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