_The r-word_

[Wilson Gray]

On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 5:58 AM, Garson O'Toole
<adsgarsonotoole at gmail.com> wrote:
> the Greek word thymesis for "remembering"

Itself based upon _thymos_, a Greek word for "soul, spirit, as the
principle of life, feeling and thought, esp. of strong feeling and
passion" related to Latin _fumus_ - a better transliteration of the
Greek is _thumos_, which makes the relationship clearer, but I'm bound
by tradition - "smoke," the source of English "fume.".

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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