Notes of a word-watcher, Hanching Chung. A first port of call for English learning.
2016年10月20日 星期四
en route, leyline, deviation, archaeologist of the mind
The UK deploys warships to monitor a Russian aircraft carrier group and other vessels as they sail through the North Sea and the English Channel reportedly en route to Syria's coast.
Patricia Highsmith died in Locarno, Switzerland on this day in 1995 (aged 74).
“Tom laughed at the phrase 'sexual deviation.' Where was the sex? Where was the deviation? He looked at Freddie and said low and bitterly: 'Freddie Miles, you're a victim of your own dirty mind.'”
― from "The Talented Mr. Ripley"
Dr. Gay wrote several works on Freud and summed up his
findings in the best-selling “Freud: A Life for Our Time” (1988). Freud’s
integrity had been questioned and his theories challenged, but Dr. Gay praised
his “long and unrivaled career as the archaeologist of the mind.”
From the opium trade routes of the 1900s to CND’s operations in the 1980s, maps reveal the political leylines of history - except when it comes to the...
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deviation
diːvɪˈeɪʃ(ə)n/
noun
1.
the action of departing from an established course or accepted standard.
Ley lines/leɪlaɪnz/ are supposed alignments of numerous places of geographical and historical interest, such as ancient monuments and megaliths, natural ridge-tops and water-fords. The phrase was coined in 1921 by the amateur archaeologistAlfred Watkins, in his books Early British Trackways and The Old Straight Track. He sought to identify ancient trackways in the British landscape. Watkins later developed theories that these alignments were created for ease of overland trekking by line-of-sight navigation during neolithic times, and had persisted in the landscape over millennia.[1]
In a book called The View Over Atlantis (1969), the writer John Michell revived the term "ley lines", associating it with spiritual and mystical theories about alignments of land forms, drawing on the Chinese concept of feng shui. He believed that a mystical network of ley lines existed across Britain.[2]
Since the publication of Michell's book, the spiritualised version of the concept has been adopted by other authors and applied to landscapes in many places around the world. Both versions of the theory have been criticised on the grounds that a random distribution of a sufficient number of points on a plane will inevitably create alignments of random points purely by chance.
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