Not only is "What You Mean by Home" a short chapter (coming in at 11 pages), it's also a snappy one. Things still get bogged down in some jargon and dense sentence structures, but the second half of the chapter is something of an etymology of the word "home."
The focus on this word is excellent, it's just the kind of thing that I want to find in a book that may appear otherwise dry. Why? Because digging through the dirt of words always reveals a few ancient coins or dazzling fossils. Like the idea that the words "arm" and "sea" and their ilk in Germanic languages don't seem to have come from Indo-European.
More importantly, though, it's in this chapter that he drops the fact that he works on a Mac on us.
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