Wednesday, May 28, 2008

Words: Misery

Yes, I'm still reading. No, I haven't gone to bed yet. I got caught up in the book while sitting at my desk and didn't want to stop to deal with preparing for bed!

I have one more quote for you from "Into the Depths of God." This is from the chapter (I'm only at chapter 2 - yikes!)

"The most miserable people are those who are possessed by materialism. The etymology of the world "miserable" is formed of the same stem as "miser." Miser-y is really misery."

Process on that for awhile.

The other book that I'm enjoying right now is "The Dord, the Diglot, and an Avocado or Two" by Anu Garg. It tells of 'the hidden lives and strange origins of common and not-so-common words.' Yup, I love words.

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