I fondly muse to think of an Indian tendency that if "one" is good then "more" is gooder. If praying to one God is beneficial we concluded praying to more Gods should be bountiful. If most cultures hold one Book dear, we are 3 times dearer: Ramayanam, Bharatam, and Bhagavatham. Causality demanded that there be a writer for these books for they wouldn?t have coalesced out of nothing. The later two are attributed to the Vedic ScribeVyaasa.

I have recited through early schooling that a "Vyaasa" is the author of Vedas and importantly the "Mahabharat", never questioning if a name such should have a meaning. It was a noun and independent, (I KNEW, why ponder otherwise). This is astonishing selective blindness when with equal intensity we were drilled the geometry of circles and "Vyaas" is what we called the diameter. But it never occurred to me that these two familiar words are related. 40 years later I had an opportunity to run into a Vedic Scholar at a friend?s house. He pointed out that the name is incomplete as "Vyasa" as it should be "Veda Vyaas". So "Veda Vyaas" is someone that cuts through the center of Vedas, essentially bringing the crux of Vedas to the general public.

Well anyways, as another story goes, After writing and interpreting the Vedas, and dictating the long Mahabharatam to Vinaayaka, he was still forlorn and not fulfilled, not happy. He was then lead by Narada to consider the joy of Gopaala. So comes the joyous tumult of MahaBhaagavatam.

As I go through days of work, I tell myself that I would be so glad, if I can only "do" one thing every day that garners me a morsel of happiness, like a "marble" if I were a kid that I could pocket and nurture myself to sleep.

The last few days, like an unyielding subject, the scramble "A T I N G S Y" was a torture. It didn?t take long to realize one of the words is "S T A Y I N G". However that was too easy. There is another word, as the game I was playing was rejecting "S T A Y I N G" as a worthy effort.

There are only 7 letters. I should be able to solve this quite easily. But as it turns this combination of letters have high "affinity" between them resulting in a whole crap load of words

IN, AT, AN, IS
GIN, SIN, TIN
NAG, TAG
SING, TINY, SAY, NAY, GAY
SAT, SATIN, NASTY,STAY,STY,STING
GAIN, SAINT,GIST

And possible words I may not know

INGATSY
TAYSING
IGNATYS

And more creative words the world had not yet had a chance to discover. I finally gave in and asked the game to give a clue.

The clue said

"very dark"

So I thought, is it a color, is it an emotion, is it a mood? Nothing.

However the meaning seem to indicate the word is conclusively adjective. Most likely it would be ending in

"ian"

That leaves me "tsgy"

The only possible letter combination that could "SOUND" unnatural is

STYGIAN????

Is there a word like that? It is par for the course 6 other words I have so invented were too optimistic. Will it be one as well? I was so unsure when I clicked on the dictionary?

There it is. It IS a word. Derived from river STYX, meaning the molassy, slowmoving, tarry, gloomy river that the death passes by. But yet yields beautifully tragic word

STYGIAN

There is my marble for the day.

In total it took me a few hours in multiple settings to get my marble.