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Fata Organafah-tuh awr-gah-nuh
n. A flash of real emotion glimpsed in someone sitting across the room--their mind wandering away from whatever's happening around them, their eyes lighting up with pensiveness or vulnerability or cosmic boredom--as if you could see backstage through a gap in the curtains, watching actors in costume mouthing their lines, fragments of bizarre sets waiting for some other production.
Etymology
From fata morgana, a kind of mirage that warps the appearance of distant objects so that sailboats look like fairy castles + organa, methods by which a philosophical investigation may be conducted.
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