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  • So, too, could the Japanese iki, an attitude of casually disinterested elegance, or the German fernweh, the longing to be somewhere far away, evoked by distant vistas or unknown forests.

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  • Fernweh means wanderlust, a longing for distant places.

    November 8, 2015