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Misery is one of those words that is actually kind of attractive if you take away the connotations. But part of me also likes the darkness of the associations. It's like a very blunt Dolores. I enjoy the creepy whimsy of Puritan names (I thought the word name Silence was beautiful for years) and Misery has this in spades. I don't know if or how I'd use it.... even though the character Misery was good (I think she was actually the heroine of a series of romance novels?), the name has acquired the flavour of the movie villain, who had the ever so harmless name of Annie!

This message was edited 7/15/2021, 2:58 AM