Aporia comes from the Greek word *aporos*, which means *without passage*. (a - *without*; poros - *passage*). Daniel Mendelssohn refers to aporia as a form of suffering: "a helpless, immobilized confusion, a lack of resources to find one's way out of a problem." In the Odyssey, it is used as an adjective to describe the sea, "the terrifying blank nothingness from which Odysseus must extricate himself, literally and figuratively, in order to reclaim his identity and find his way home." A person who suffers from *aporia* is pathless. (This describes my current state on 2020-12-02.) --- **Source:** Mendelsohn, Daniel Adam. Three Rings: A Tale of Exile, Narrative, and Fate. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2020.