We think of NOTHINGNESS as being a lack of anything and everything. But NOTHING can have tremendous meaning.
We joke around our house about having NOTHING. “I have nothing!” How can you have NOTHING? Isn’t NOTHING the lack of having anything? So how can you have something that isn’t there? Hmm?
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| THIS IS NOTHING |
Or what about, “She said nothing.”? Does this mean the person didn’t speak? Or did the person say the word, “Nothing.”? It all depends on how you punctuate it.
“Janey, what’s in your hand?”
Janey said nothing.
“Janey, what’s in your hand?”
Janey said, “Nothing.”
The first example makes me thing that Janey, indeed, has something in her hand but doesn’t want to tell me.
The second one is less clear. It would depend on how she said it. If she says it in a chipper voice and opens her hand, then NOTHING is accurate. But if she says it in a low voice and hides her hand behind her back, she’s got something.
So this brings me to to this question, how can NOTHING have meaning?
A blank space in writing is the absence of a letter or some other writing symbol. So if having a space has meaning, does having no space—or rather taking away the NOTHING—do you have more NOTHING? Either can make a world of difference. If you have NOTHING, can you have more of it? That’s kind of like taking zero and multiplying it by any number. You still have zero. It didn’t change. Or did it?
Lets consider NOWHERE. I don’t know how a person can actually be NOWHERE. We are each somewhere, even if we don’t know where that is. We call that lost. But we are somewhere, aren’t we?
Apparently, a person CAN be NOWHERE. NOWHERE, OK. So if a person ever tells you that they are NOWHERE, you know where to find them.
If we put a space in NOWHERE, it becomes NOW HERE. So we go from not being anywhere to being somewhere with the addition of NOTHING (the blank space).
When nothing is taken away, does that make it more of NOTHING?
That hurts my brain.
Let’s consider another one.
BEWILDER or BE WILDER? BIG difference.
What are some other major word changes with the removal or addiction of NOTHING?
Washington State, 1893
When Lily Lexington Bremmer arrives in Kamola with her young son, she’s reluctant to join the social center of her new community, the quilting circle, but the friendly ladies pull her in. She begins piecing a sunshine and shadows quilt because it mirrors her life. She has a secret that lurks in the shadows and hopes it doesn’t come out into the light. Dark places in her past are best forgotten, but her new life is full of sunshine. Will her secrets cast shadows on her bright future?
Widower Edric Hammond and his father are doing their best to raise his two young daughters. He meets Lily and her son when they arrive in town and helps her find a job and a place to live. Lily resists Edric’s charms at first but finds herself falling in love with this kind, gentle man and his two darling daughters. Lily has stolen his heart with her first warm smile, but he’s cautious about bringing another woman into his girls’ lives due to the harshness of their own mother.
Can Edric forgive Lily her past to take hold of a promising chance at love?THE WIDOW'S PLIGHT is now available for pre-order at only $2.99--the low price for pre-orders...later it will go up. A sweet historical romance that will tug at your heart. This book releases in ebook on July 1, and will be out in paperback by mid-June.
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“Holly & Ivy,”my #HistoricalRomance novella in A BOUQUET OF BRIDES COLLECTION, takes place in 1890, in Washington State. It’s about a young woman who accompanies her impetuous younger sister on her trip across the country to be a Christmas mail-order bride and is helped by a gallant stranger. #BouquetOfBrides
COURTING HER AMISH HEART is a contemporary romance, the first in the Prodigal Daughters series.
A doctor or an Amish wife? She can choose to be only one…Kathleen Yoder comes home after fourteen years in the Englisher world. Practicing medicine means sacrifice—no Amish man will want a doctor for a wife. Widowed Noah Lambright offers a cottage as her new clinic, seeing how much Kathleen’s skills can help their community. But as their friendship deepens, could love and family become more than a forbidden dream?
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“Janey, what’s in your hand?”
Janey said nothing.
“Janey, what’s in your hand?”
Janey said, “Nothing.”
The first example makes me thing that Janey, indeed, has something in her hand but doesn’t want to tell me.
The second one is less clear. It would depend on how she said it. If she says it in a chipper voice and opens her hand, then NOTHING is accurate. But if she says it in a low voice and hides her hand behind her back, she’s got something.
So this brings me to to this question, how can NOTHING have meaning?
A blank space in writing is the absence of a letter or some other writing symbol. So if having a space has meaning, does having no space—or rather taking away the NOTHING—do you have more NOTHING? Either can make a world of difference. If you have NOTHING, can you have more of it? That’s kind of like taking zero and multiplying it by any number. You still have zero. It didn’t change. Or did it?
Lets consider NOWHERE. I don’t know how a person can actually be NOWHERE. We are each somewhere, even if we don’t know where that is. We call that lost. But we are somewhere, aren’t we?
 |
| This is NOWHERE |
Apparently, a person CAN be NOWHERE. NOWHERE, OK. So if a person ever tells you that they are NOWHERE, you know where to find them.
If we put a space in NOWHERE, it becomes NOW HERE. So we go from not being anywhere to being somewhere with the addition of NOTHING (the blank space).
When nothing is taken away, does that make it more of NOTHING?
That hurts my brain.
Let’s consider another one.
BEWILDER or BE WILDER? BIG difference.
What are some other major word changes with the removal or addiction of NOTHING?
COMING SOON
THE WIDOW'S PLIGHT ~ A sweet historical romance that will tug at your heart. This is book 1 in the Quilting Circle series.
Washington State, 1893
When Lily Lexington Bremmer arrives in Kamola with her young son, she’s reluctant to join the social center of her new community, the quilting circle, but the friendly ladies pull her in. She begins piecing a sunshine and shadows quilt because it mirrors her life. She has a secret that lurks in the shadows and hopes it doesn’t come out into the light. Dark places in her past are best forgotten, but her new life is full of sunshine. Will her secrets cast shadows on her bright future?
Widower Edric Hammond and his father are doing their best to raise his two young daughters. He meets Lily and her son when they arrive in town and helps her find a job and a place to live. Lily resists Edric’s charms at first but finds herself falling in love with this kind, gentle man and his two darling daughters. Lily has stolen his heart with her first warm smile, but he’s cautious about bringing another woman into his girls’ lives due to the harshness of their own mother.
Can Edric forgive Lily her past to take hold of a promising chance at love?THE WIDOW'S PLIGHT is now available for pre-order at only $2.99--the low price for pre-orders...later it will go up. A sweet historical romance that will tug at your heart. This book releases in ebook on July 1, and will be out in paperback by mid-June.
“Holly & Ivy,”my #HistoricalRomance novella in A BOUQUET OF BRIDES COLLECTION, takes place in 1890, in Washington State. It’s about a young woman who accompanies her impetuous younger sister on her trip across the country to be a Christmas mail-order bride and is helped by a gallant stranger. #BouquetOfBrides
A doctor or an Amish wife? She can choose to be only one…Kathleen Yoder comes home after fourteen years in the Englisher world. Practicing medicine means sacrifice—no Amish man will want a doctor for a wife. Widowed Noah Lambright offers a cottage as her new clinic, seeing how much Kathleen’s skills can help their community. But as their friendship deepens, could love and family become more than a forbidden dream?
#ChristianRomance #HistoricalRomance #Romance
MARY DAVIS is a bestselling, award-winning novelist of over two dozen titles in both historical and contemporary themes. She has five titles releasing in 2018; "Holly & Ivy" in A Bouquet of Brides Collection in January, Courting Her Amish Heart in March, The Widow’s Plight in July, Courting Her Secret Heart September, & “Zola’s Cross-Country Adventure” in MISSAdventure Brides Collection in December. She is a member of ACFW and active in critique groups.
Mary lives in the Pacific Northwest with her husband of over thirty-three years and two cats. She has three adult children and one incredibly adorable grandchild. Find her online at:
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