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Vedi Napoli

I am not quite sure how calming it is, knowing that I can die now that I have seen Naples. Surely, it would have been more prudent to hold off on seeing Naples for a while. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe coined the referenced phrase in a letter in 1787, when Naples was the capital of …

Babak Fakhamzadeh

orming

Wandering without intent, meandering, walking with pleasurable aimlessness (English regional, esp. Lincolnshire; supposedly derived from the Norse word for “worm”). See also “stravaiging” (Scots), “daundering”, “pootling”, etc.

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