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  • Rome’s is “sex, ” the Vatican’s “power”; Gilbert declares New York’s to be “achieve, ” but only later stumbles upon her own word, antevasin, Sanskrit for “one who lives at the border.

    Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert: Questions 2006

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    Little Elm 2009

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    daily life 2009

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  • The antevasin was an in-betweener. He was a border-dweller. He lived in sight of both worlds, but he looked toward the unknown.

    --Elizabeth Gilbert, 2006, Eat, Pray, Love, p. 204

    August 13, 2009

  • Ante is sanskrit for end, near the end or edge

    Vasin is to live or one who lives

    Antevasin is "One who lives on the edge" or literally "one who lives at the end"

    October 23, 2009