Spinning Playback Head

silhouette of a person looking out a window

Spinning Playback Head

n.
the disorienting feeling of meeting back up with an old friend and realizing that you’ve become different people on divergent paths—that even though they’re standing right in front of you, the person you once knew isn’t really there anymore.

After the part of a VCR that reads the signal on a videotape.

Skidding

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Angosis

a table full of food

Nilous

a person standing at a bus terminal

Candling

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Wenbane

a person standing on a ledge looking at a city skyline

Mauerbauertraurigkeit

Mauerbauer-traurigkeit

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