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“Delirious: Art at the Limits of Reason 1950-1980” opens today at The Met Breuer. http://met.org/2vUgQVT




A replica gun.

Ancient petroglyphs in Nevada. Photo: University of Colorado, Boulder

A group of 6,700-year-old carvings in Oregon just lost their title as oldest rock carvings in North America, LiveScience reports. Researchers just discovered that ornately designed petroglyphs in Nevada may be more than twice as old as the Oregon rocks.

Read more: http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/2013/08/these-carvings-are-the-

Koolhaas, Delirious in Beijing
Certainly Chichikov was a thorough coward, for, although the britchka pursued its headlong course until Nozdrev's establishment had disappeared behind hillocks and hedgerows, our hero continued to glance nervously behind him, as though every moment expecting to see a stern chase begin. His breath came with difficulty, and when he tried his heart with his hands he could feel it fluttering like a quail caught in a net.

Personal Health

Vigilance About the Dangers of Delirium

By JANE E. BRODY

About 20 percent of hospital patients over 65 experience delirium-related complications, but with prompt recognition and proper management episodes can be shortened, suffering alleviated and costs reduced.

hedgerow
[名]((主に英))生け垣；その樹木の列.

replica

Line breaks: rep|lica

Pronunciation: /ˈrɛplɪkə/

Definition of replica in English:

NOUN

An exact copy or model of something, especially one on a smaller scale:a replica of the Empire State Building

Origin

mid 18th century (as a musical term in the sense 'a repeat'): from Italian, from replicare 'to reply'.

delirious

(dĭ-lîr'ē-əs)
adj.

1. Of, suffering from, or characteristic of delirium.
2. Marked by uncontrolled excitement or emotion; ecstatic: delirious joy; a crowd of delirious baseball fans.

deliriously de·lir'i·ous·ly adv.
deliriousness de·lir'i·ous·ness n.

delirious

Pronunciation: /dɪˈlɪrɪəs/

adjective

• in an acutely disturbed state of mind characterized by restlessness, illusions, and incoherence; affected by delirium: he became delirious and couldn’t recognize people
• in a state of wild excitement or ecstasy:there was a great roar from the delirious crowd

Derivatives

deliriant
adjective

deliriously

adverb

[as submodifier]:Rose was deliriously happy

delirium[de・lir・i・um]

  発音記号[dilíəriəm]

1 《病理学》譫妄(せんもう)（状態）, 意識の混濁（状態）, 狂乱（状態）.

2 熱狂, 興奮, 無我夢中.


petrified
(pĕt'rə-fī')

v., -fied, -fy·ing, -fies. v.tr.

1. To convert (wood or other organic matter) into a stony replica by petrifaction.
2. To cause to become stiff or stonelike; deaden.
3. To stun or paralyze with terror; daze.

v.intr.
To become stony, especially by petrifaction.
[形]（身動きできないほど）おびえた；ぼう然とした；((米俗))ぐでんぐでんに酔っ払った.

[Middle English petrifien, to harden, from Old French petrifier : Latin petra, rock (from Greek petrā) + Old French -fier, -fy.]

hillock

[名]小丘；つか.
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In "The Leopard," when the Prince is hunting near the fictional Donnafugata, really Santa Margherita, he looks out over the landscape and sees it "aridly undulating to the horizon in hillock after hillock, comfortless and irrational, with no lines that the mind could grasp, conceived apparently in a delirious moment of creation; a sea suddenly petrified when a change of wind had flung the waves into a frenzy."


Spotlight:

Petrified Forest's Painted Desert

How big is Arizona's Painted Desert? The Painted Desert stretches nearly 150 miles (240 kilometers) from the Grand Canyon southeast into the Petrified Forest National Park. The area's name was inspired by the colorful layers of sedimentary rock; the varied colors come from oxides of iron and manganese compounds in the soil, as well as sediments deposited without oxygen. The Painted Desert is just one of the features that make the Petrified Forest, established on this date in 1962, such a breathtaking tourist attraction. The park also contains vast numbers of petrified tree trunks, fossilized leaves and plants, and petroglyphs. There are fossils dating back some 225 million years, from the late Triassic Period, including remains of some of North America's earliest known dinosaurs.

Quote:

"Nature is a petrified magic city." — Novalis

petroglyph

Pronunciation: /ˈpɛtrə(ʊ)glɪf/

noun

• a rock carving, especially a prehistoric one.

Origin:

late 19th century: from petro- 'rock' + Greek glyphē 'carving'