Aug. 23rd, 2009
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Aug. 23rd, 2009 04:39 pmI've decided to add Portugal to the list of places I want to visit.
An interesting bit of word-lore, courtesy of Elizabeth Gilbert's Eat, Pray, Love:
An interesting bit of word-lore, courtesy of Elizabeth Gilbert's Eat, Pray, Love:
The word amok, as in "running amok," is a Balinese word, describing a battle technique of suddenly going insanely wild against one's enemies in suicidal and bloody hand-to-hand combat; the Europeans were frankly terrified by this practice.