topiary, madness, maddish, Philip Marlowe, rabies

Taiwan set to report rabies cases to OIE
Focus Taiwan News Channel
Taipei, July 17 (CNA) Taiwan on Wednesday was ready to report three cases of rabies -- the first in the country since 1961 -- to the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE). The infections, detected in wild Formosan ferret-badgers, were confirmed ...

 

Isolated, Rousseau, never very emotionally stable, suffered a serious decline in his mental health and began to experience paranoid fantasies about plots against him involving Hume and others. “He is plainly mad, after having long been maddish”, Hume wrote to a friend.[18]


IF you’ve never seen one, it’s almost impossible to capture the mesmerizing allure of a classic Japanese garden — and even standing for the first time in front of a bed of raked gravel can be a challenge. No vivid colors. No sweeping borders. No topiary animals. No shooting fountains. No fun, it would seem. Still, the traditional Japanese garden, esoteric as it is, has an ancient and undeniable appeal. It’s about secrets, perspectives, initiation, memory and time. It may take ages for a Japanese garden to come to maturity, to say nothing of the gardener. And yet, for all its mystery, the Japanese garden reveals itself as a capacious symbol of the human soul, replete with exactly the kinds of “borrowed landscapes” we live with. But we call them our personal histories.

 

'1Q84'

By HARUKI MURAKAMI. TRANSLATED BY JAY RUBIN AND PHILIP GABRIEL
Reviewed by KATHRYN SCHULZ Haruki Murakami has translated Raymond Chandler into Japanese, and there's a lot of Marlowe to his madness.



Philip Marlowe is perhaps the most famous detective character and the leading icon of the "hard-boiled" school of mystery writing. The fictional creation of author Raymond Chandler, Philip Marlowe is a private detective with his own practice in Los Angeles (where Raymond Chandler himself had lived). Marlowe is a smart and tough lone wolf with a sense of honor: he won't take divorce cases, doesn't like being pushed around, amuses himself with old chess problems, and never gives up on a mystery. Marlowe appears in seven complete novels by Chandler, beginning with The Big Sleep (published 1939) and ending with Playback (1958). Various TV and radio series also featured the Philip Marlowe character, though they were not written by Chandler. A Marlowe novel left unfinished at Chandler's death, Poodle Springs, was finished by mystery writer Robert B. Parker and published in 1989.

madness[mad・ness]

• 発音記号[mǽdnis]

[名][U]

1 狂気, 精神錯乱, 狂乱, 激怒；((主に英))愚行, 狂気のさた

feign madness
狂気を装う

It is sheer madness to drive so fast.
そんなにスピードを出すのはまったく愚かなことだ.

2 狂犬［恐水］病(rabies).

3 熱中, 夢中

dance to madness
夢中になって踊る

love a person to madness
人を溺愛(できあい)する.

topiary[to・pi・ar・y]

• 発音記号[tóupièri | -piəri]
• 
  

[形]〈庭などが〉植木の風変りに［装飾的に］刈り込んだ.

━━[名]（複-ies）[U][C]

1 装飾的な刈り込み（技術）.

2 装飾庭園.
(tō'pē-ĕr'ē)
adj.
Of or characterized by the clipping or trimming of live shrubs or trees into decorative shapes, as of animals.

n., pl., -ies.

1. Topiary work or art.
2. A topiary garden.

[Latin topiārius, from topia, ornamental gardening, from Greek topia, pl. of topion, field.]

rabies

Syllabification: (ra·bies)

Pronunciation: /ˈrābēz/

noun

• a contagious and fatal viral disease of dogs and other mammals that causes madness and convulsions, transmissible through the saliva to humans. Also called hydrophobia.

Origin:

late 16th century: from Latin, from rabere 'rave'