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From the Ted Talk by Joshua Prager: In search of the man who broke my neck

Unscramble the Blue Letters


But most of all, I wished to tell him what Herman Melville wrote, that "truly to enjoy boldiy warmth, some small part of you must be cold, for there is no quialty in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast." Yes, contrast. If you are mindful of what you do not have, you may be truly mindful of what you do have, and if the gods are kind, you may truly enojy what you have. That is the one singular gift you may receive if you suffer in any existential way. You know daeth, and so may wake each morning psiunlg with ready life. Some part of you is cold, and so another part may truly enjoy what it is to be warm, or even to be cold. When one morning, years after the csarh, I stepped onto sotne and the underside of my left foot felt the fsalh of cold, nerves at last awake, it was exhilarating, a gust of snow.

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But most of all, I wished to tell him what Herman Melville wrote, that "truly to enjoy ______ warmth, some small part of you must be cold, for there is no _______ in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast." Yes, contrast. If you are mindful of what you do not have, you may be truly mindful of what you do have, and if the gods are kind, you may truly _____ what you have. That is the one singular gift you may receive if you suffer in any existential way. You know _____, and so may wake each morning _______ with ready life. Some part of you is cold, and so another part may truly enjoy what it is to be warm, or even to be cold. When one morning, years after the _____, I stepped onto _____ and the underside of my left foot felt the _____ of cold, nerves at last awake, it was exhilarating, a gust of snow.

Solution


  1. bodily
  2. enjoy
  3. quality
  4. crash
  5. death
  6. pulsing
  7. stone
  8. flash

Original Text


But most of all, I wished to tell him what Herman Melville wrote, that "truly to enjoy bodily warmth, some small part of you must be cold, for there is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast." Yes, contrast. If you are mindful of what you do not have, you may be truly mindful of what you do have, and if the gods are kind, you may truly enjoy what you have. That is the one singular gift you may receive if you suffer in any existential way. You know death, and so may wake each morning pulsing with ready life. Some part of you is cold, and so another part may truly enjoy what it is to be warm, or even to be cold. When one morning, years after the crash, I stepped onto stone and the underside of my left foot felt the flash of cold, nerves at last awake, it was exhilarating, a gust of snow.

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Important Words


  1. awake
  2. bodily
  3. cold
  4. contrast
  5. crash
  6. death
  7. enjoy
  8. exhilarating
  9. existential
  10. felt
  11. flash
  12. foot
  13. gift
  14. gods
  15. gust
  16. herman
  17. kind
  18. left
  19. life
  20. melville
  21. mindful
  22. morning
  23. nerves
  24. part
  25. pulsing
  26. quality
  27. ready
  28. receive
  29. singular
  30. small
  31. snow
  32. stepped
  33. stone
  34. suffer
  35. underside
  36. wake
  37. warm
  38. warmth
  39. wished
  40. world
  41. wrote
  42. years