On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 2:59 AM, Steve Doerr <[email protected]> wrote:
> And the word actually *means* 'empty tomb': 'ancient Greek *κενοτάϕιον* < > *κενός* empty [...] + *τάϕος* tomb' (Oxford English Dictionary). > > > I became familiar with the word because of my family's history. Two of my great-grandfathers were lost at sea. They perished in separate calamities; the life of a fisherman is a hard one, and often a short one as well. My step-grandfather never returned from a hunting trip in the Catskill Mountains. All three have their cenotaphs in a cemetery near New York City. To the best of my knowledge, I was the first person in my family to climb the mountain where my step-grandfather disappeared, over seventy years later. It is not a cenotaph, but I left a memorial in the climbers' log book at the summit. https://flic.kr/p/oYmftb
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