Because I spent my formative years wandering half-drunk around as many foreign countries as I could get to, I have always loved books and poems about travel and what it means. One of the reasons I fell so hugely in love with Old English when I first started learning it is that they kept alive this Germanic heroic tradition of deep metaphysical
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Imagine my surprise to discover--years later--that she'd actually been in the right! Muckefuck is originally a Rhenish word, however, and although it's used in northern cities like Berlin, our programme was in the deep South where it's apparently unknown. Amused, I took it for an e-mail alias back when I was changing that on a whim every couple of months (a habit I must've picked up from my Usenet friends).
When my friend welcomerain invited me to get an account so I could read her Friends-locked entries, I never dreamed that six years later she'd be off LiveJournal completely and I'd have posted more than 10,000 comments under the name. The best reaction I've ever received for it was at an LJ-Meetup. A woman asked my username and when I said "muckefuck", she brightly replied, "I have no context for that!"
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