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Just by way of clarification-
Word of the Day for Friday September 27, 2002:
schadenfreude \SHAHD-n-froy-duh\, noun:
A malicious satisfaction in the misfortunes of others.
The historian Peter Gay -- who felt Schadenfreude as a Jewish child in
Nazi-era Berlin, watching the Germans lose coveted gold medals in the 1936
Olympics -- has said that it "can be one of the great joys of life."
--From: Edward Rothstein, "Missing the Fun of a Minor Sin." New York Times,
February 5, 2000
Often the people Pi met in Mendocino wanted to hear these terrible stories,
the personal disasters, or they quoted them back to her from what they'd
read, with a certain glitter in their eyes -- giving Pi the chance to wonder
again as she once had in a Wittgenstein seminar why there wasn't a word in
English for Schadenfreude, that very human pleasure taken in other people's
misery.
--From: Sylvia Brownrigg, The Metaphysical Touch
Jim Meyer
kjmeyer@seattleschools.org
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