Crevasse, queer. Queer Literature. Marie Antoinette’s furniture from the Petit Trianon, Versailles. Made in 1787 by Georges Jacob.

Marie Antoinette’s furniture from the Petit Trianon, Versailles. Made in 1787 by Georges Jacob.

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crevasse 

Pronunciation: /krɪˈvas/ 

NOUN

1A deep open crack, especially one in a glacier.

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1.1North American A breach in the embankment of a river or canal.

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Origin

Early 19th century: from French, from Old French crevace (see crevice).

queer 

Pronunciation: /kwɪə/ 

ADJECTIVE

1Strange; odd:she had a queer feeling that they were being watched

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1.1[PREDICATIVE] British informal, dated Slightly ill:he was feeling rather queer

Synonyms

2informal, often offensive (Of a person) homosexual.

2.1Denoting or relating to a sexual or gender identity that does not correspond to established ideas of sexuality and gender, especially heterosexual norms: 1922 指同性戀queer geek culture has featured gay themes since the 1980snightclubs have traditionally been a space where queer people, trans women in particular, can explore gender with relative safety

NOUN

informal, offensive

A homosexual man.

VERB

[WITH OBJECT] informal

Spoil or ruin (an agreement, event, or situation):Reg didn’t want someone meddling and queering the deal at the last minute

Queer is an umbrella term for people who are not heterosexual or are not cisgender. Originally meaning 'strange' or 'peculiar', queer came to be used ...

‎Queer heterosexuality · ‎Queer theory · ‎Queer radicalism · ‎Queer studies

 In 2013, she was named as one of the 50 best-dressed over 50 by The Guardian.^[49]

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【WOW！黃裕邦《天裂》殺入Lambda Literary Awards最後名單！】

香港土生土長的英語詩人黃裕邦(Nicholas Wong)，其2015出版詩集《天裂》（Crevasse）剛入選美國第28屆Lambda Literary Awards (Gay Poetry)最後入圍名單。該奬項在美國被視為文壇艾美獎(Lammys)，亦是全世界對酷兒文學創作（Queer Literature)作出嘉許的最高殊榮。Nicholas 是首個入選該組別的香港人，而同時亦是能夠進入今屆最後名單的兩個亞洲詩人之一（另一位是現已移居紐約的新加坡詩人Jee Leong Koh)。是次獲得國際肯定証明本地文字創作正藴釀一股新力量，不能忽視。

頒獎禮將於6月6日在紐約大學Skirball Center for the Performing Arts 舉行，嘉賓包括曾在奧巴馬就職典禮上朗讀自己作品的拉丁美裔男同詩人Richard Blanco。所有得獎者將於該典禮揭曉。


奬項背景及所有組別大名單：
http://www.lambdaliterary.org/…/28th-annual-lambda-literar…/
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作品及出版社：
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Nicholas YB Wong

Harris has virtually erased her hometown from her campaign biography.

 

he San Francisco Bay Area that sprawls over 1,400 square miles and is home to nearly three million people.約50* 50公里

Location of the Bay Area within California.
  The nine-county Bay Area.
  Additional counties in the larger thirteen-county combined statistical area.

A map of the Bay Area and its sub-regions, divided by counties:
North Bay
San Francisco
San Francisco Peninsula
South Bay / Santa Clara Valley
East Bay

As Harris Claims Oakland, Berkeley Forgives

Vice President Kamala Harris has virtually erased her hometown from her campaign biography. The residents of “the People’s Republic” say they get it.

But where was that exactly? The screen simply read “East Bay,” as in the eastern section of the San Francisco Bay Area that sprawls over 1,400 square miles and is home to nearly three million people. Ms. Harris called the area just “the bay” in her speech on Thursday night. Other speakers throughout the week referred to Ms. Harris as hailing from Oakland, the East Bay’s largest city.

The word almost never spoken was the name of Ms. Harris’s actual hometown: Berkeley, Calif.

biography
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発音baiάɡrəfi | -ɔ́ɡ-
大学入試レベル
[名]1C伝記，一代記（⇒autobiography）
1aU〔集合的に〕伝記物，伝記文学
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U（人の）経歴，履歴，略歴；（建造物などの）来歴語源［bio-（生涯）＋-graphy（記述したもの）］

gash, A murmuration of starlings, inscription, Hogmanay, colophon

A spectacular starling murmuration gave onlookers at Cosmeston Lakes in the Vale of Glamorgan an unforgettable sight.

Video © Cat Peters

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Officials in Meridian, Mississippi, are trying to determine what caused a massive gash -- longer than a football field -- to tear through an IHOP parking lot, swallowing more than a dozen cars in the mud below.


















Parking Lot Collapses, Swallowing More Than a Dozen Cars


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Sheryl Sandberg's husband Dave Goldberg died after falling off a treadmill


He was discovered by his brother with a gash in his head

American actor Harrison Ford was reportedly piloting this single-engine plane that crashed onto a golf course near the Santa Monica Municipal Airport.
The news was first reported by TMZ and then confirmed by other US media. TMZ said Ford suffered "multiple gashes to his head" and was taken to hospital.

Musée Rodin

[ARTWORK OF THE WEEK] The torso shown here is a partial reworking of The Age of Bronze. The tear in the fabric to the side of the forehead reveals a gash, the trace of a wound incurred by this vanquished warrior.

See more : http://www.musee-rodin.fr/…/sculptu…/draped-torso-age-bronze

A Shi'ite Muslim has his child gashed with a knife during a Muharram procession ahead of Ashoura in Mumbai. Ashoura commemorates the death of Imam Hussein, grandson of Prophet Mohammad. A look back at the week around the world, through our Editor's Choice photos:http://reut.rs/1so1obh

(Photo credit: REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui)


A murmuration of starlings puts on a display near the town of Gretna, Scotland, on Thursday. The birds visit the area twice a year.

This week's best photos: http://wapo.st/1yn3nQI

"The starlings dance before sunset, but not every day, and the exact time can vary with the weather." Capturing starling pictures by AFP photographer Menahem Kahana: http://u.afp.com/KAS

Shakespeare s sole reference to the starling (八哥) appears in King Henry IV, part 1 (Act 1, scene 3): Nay, I ll have a starling shall be taught to speak nothing but Mortimer.  [1] 哼！我要養一隻能言的 starling ，僅僅教會它說 Mortimer. 。

In captivity, Starlings will learn to imitate all types of sounds and speech [1] earning them the nickname "Poor-man's Myna".

讀點 Wikipedia了解它長得怎樣

這期New York Times Sunday Magazine 有一篇報導羅馬的starlings成群...

莫札特 的 A Musical Joke 引的就是 starling

Scots "Hogmanay" For Days to Mark the New Year

Großansicht des Bildes mit der Bildunterschrift: Empty now, but in a few days, these streets will be packed with partiers

New Year’s is a huge deal in Scotland. Out with the old and in with the new is a multi-day celebration known as Hogmanay.

Auld Lang Syne is sung at New Year’s throughout much of the Western World. Yet most people are unsure of exactly what it means, likely because it was written in Scots by Scottish Poet Robert Burns.
So, it shouldn’t be too surprising that the Scots celebrate New Year's Eve for nearly a week. But do cityfolk and country cousins ring in the year the same way?
Report: Jodi Breisler


inscription
noun [C]
words that are written or cut in something:
The inscription read 'To darling Molly. Christmas 1904.'
The inscriptions on the gravestones were worn away.

━━ n. 刻印; 刻みつけられたもの; 題銘, 碑文; （本の）献呈の辞; 記入, 登録; 〔英〕 （株式などの）登録; 〔英〕 （pl.） 登録株式［公債］

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colophon

col·o·phon ( kŏl'ə-fŏn', -fən) 
n.

1. An inscription placed usually at the end of a book, giving facts about its publication.
2. A publisher's emblem or trademark placed usually on the title page of a book.

[Late Latin colophōn, from Greek kolophōn, summit, finishing touch.]

col・o・phon

1. 書籍末頁的出版社商標
2. 版權頁標記

     

━━ n. 奥付け; 出版社のマーク.

One of the most treasured items in my personal library is a tiny volume of "little poems" entitled 憶 which 俞平伯 dedicated to his sister. The volume, the preface of which is dated in March 1922, was published in December 1925. It carries a colophone (sic) by 朱自清 and highly congenial woodcut illustrations by豐子愷.

-- A little talk on little poems (小詩小語 ) by N. G. D. Malmqvist (馬悅然) 收入"慶祝王元化教授八十歲論文集" 上海:華東師範大學出版社 2001 pp.428-29

The cuneiform inscription in the logo is the earliest-known written
appearance of the word "freedom" (amagi), or "liberty." It is taken
from a clay document written about 2300 B.C. in the Sumerian
city-state of Lagash.
Ama-gi is an ancient Sumerian word thought to mean "freedom". It is believed to be the first instance of humans using writing to represent that concept.

Hogmanay 

n. Scots.

1. The eve of New Year's Day, on which children traditionally go from house to house asking for presents.
2. A present requested or given on this day.

[Origin unknown.]

murmuration

Line breaks: mur¦mur|ation   Definition of murmuration in English:

NOUN

literary

1[MASS NOUN] The action of murmuring:the murmuration of a flock of warblers

2 rare A flock of starlings.

紫翅椋鳥 Sturnus vulgaris

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Photographer Daniel Biber from Hilzingen, Germany was trying to capture the murmuration of starlings for 4 days when he finally succeeded: he didn't realize the starlings had created a giant bird in the sky until he got home and reviewed the pictures.

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gash1

Line breaks: gash

Pronunciation: /ɡaʃ /

NOUN

1A long, deep cut or wound:a bad gash in one leg became infected

1.1 A cleft made as if by a slashing cut:

the blast ripped a 25-foot gash in the hull

2 vulgar slang A woman’s vulva.

2.1[MASS NOUN] offensive Women collectively regarded in sexual terms.

VERB

[WITH OBJECT]

Make a long, deep cut in:the jagged edges gashed their fingers

Origin

middle english garse, from Old French garcer 'to chap, crack', perhaps based onGreek kharassein 'sharpen, scratch, engrave'. The current spelling is recorded from the mid 16th century.

[名]
1 大けが，深手(slash)

cut a deep gash in ...
…に深手を負わせる［負う］.

2 （岩などの）割れ目，裂け目.
3 ((a bit of ～で))((卑))女陰；女；性交.

━━[動](他)…に深手を負わせる，切り込む.