I was reading The Valhalla Prophecy, an otherwise instantly forgettable Clive Cussler/Dan Brown style potboiler thriller, when one of the characters expounds on the concept of euhemerism, that is to say, the academic idea that mythology is an exaggerated distortion of dimly-grasped truths, rather than complete legend. So, have you had similar experience of a book that you would forthwith promptly throw across the room startling you with unexpected insight?
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It's more of a digression than a vocab issue, but anyone reading Anna Karenina expecting to find out about love, passion and doomed romance will actually learn more about how difficult it is to get Russian peasants to adopt innovative ploughing techniques developed in Western Europe. -
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