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A walk and a sentence that both forgot where they were going.

means To wander leisurely without a fixed destination, or to talk and write at length in a wandering, unfocused way.

from From the Middle English 'ramblen,' to wander, likely a frequentative form related to 'roam' — and possibly a cousin of the Dutch 'rammelen,' which described animals (especially cats) roving about during mating season. So the word carries an old whiff of restless, aimless prowling, long before it settled into describing your uncle's after-dinner stories.

british roots
In the UK, ramblers fought for legal access to private moors
the trespass
1932 mass ramble onto Kinder Scout led to arrests
speech sense
To ramble verbally is to wander without a map
led zeppelin
Ramble On borrowed plot from Tolkien's Middle-earth
for instance

ryan adams' heartbreaker album — 2000 country-rock double album with stream-of-consciousness songwriting and rambling narratives

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