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Mångata. In Swedish, this is the reflection the moon makes as it traces a path across the water.
No one who lives here can have the slightest contact with reality, or the remotest idea of what it means to be human.
According to a recent theory, a black swan is a dreadful event with huge impact that neither science nor past events could have anticipated, and which can only be rationally explained a posteriori.
kilig (a Tagalog word meaning “when you get butterflies in the stomach from happiness”),
These people’s lives are a constant window display. As well as an open door. Every photo they upload is a way in for lunatics. Don’t they realize that?
Ajunsuaqq. Which in Inuit means “to bite into the fish and get only a mouthful of ash.”
Murr-ma. An expression in Wagiman, an indigenous Australian language fewer than ten people in the entire world can speak, a word that describes what they’ve been doing until today. Murr-ma. Searching for an object in the water with their feet. Which is tricky, because your other senses want to help you out but they only get in the way.
The girl quickly learned how to dissemble, not to win her father’s affections but to avoid conflict.
“You only have to be off by a fraction at the start to end up very far from where you ought to be,”
