星期五, 1月 17, 2003

星期六, 12月 29, 1990

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 The likelihood of finding a partridge [ˋpɑ tridʒ] in a pear tree is slim. The word comes to us from the Greek perdix, which meant “to break wind,” likely referring to the sound of a bird’s wings. Link

According to Greek legend, the first partridge appeared when Daedalus threw his nephew, Perdix (Brisson, 1760), off the sacred hill of Athena in a fit of jealous rage. Supposedly mindful of his fall, the bird does not build its nest in the trees, nor take lofty flights and avoids high places.


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星期五, 12月 28, 1990

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  pyrrhos, red, tawny, from pyr, fire

Pyrrho (/ˈpɪroʊ/; Greek: Πύρρων Pyrrōn, c. 360 BC – c. 270 BC), a Greek philosopher of Classical Antiquity, is credited as being the first skeptic philosopher and the inspiration for the school known as Pyrrhonism, founded by Aenesidemus in the 1st century BC.


星期六, 12月 22, 1990

怨 懟 太 陽 _ S W A N S God Damn the Sun M C M L X X X I X




  Zanzibar Gem:   Zamioculcas zamiifolia, the single species of the genus. The botanical name derives from on the one hand the similarity of its foliage to the cycad genus Zamia and on the other hand its kinship to the genus Colocasia under the alternative form 'culcas'. It was first described as Caladium zamiifolium by Loddiges in 1829.