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Words with Elise: "Avoid"

Yep, it has something to do with the void.

So probably not surprisingly, avoid comes from vuide, empty. A void. It’s a beautiful word because its meaning is implied. We’ll do anything to avoid the void. You could say that the void is our death, the tomb to the womb, it’s the space of potentiality, but as humans we really will do anything to fill that space so it’s not empty. Nature abhors a vac…

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