“In Spanish there is a word for which I can’t find a counter-word in English. It is the verb *vacilar*, present participle *vacilando*. It does not mean vacillating at all. If one is vacilando, she is going somewhere but doesn’t greatly care whether or not she gets there, although she has direction. My friend J—— has often, in Mexico, assumed this state of being.”
Travels with Charley, John Steinbeck (1962)
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