DESERT. Literally, forsaken; hence, uninhabited; wild; untilled; waste; uncultivated; as a desert land or country. An uninhabited tract of land; a region in its natural state; a wilderness; a solitude. . .
FUGUE. (1) A musical composition whose basic structure consists of a theme or themes stated successively in different voices. (2) A dissociative state, usually caused by trauma, marked by sudden travel or wandering away from home and an inability to remember one’s past.
– quoted from Webster (1828) and the American Heritage Dictionary