--Ian Gould
From Not Quite What I Was Planning, Six-word memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure.
Friday, June 7, 2013
Six-Word Memoirs
Macular degeneration. Didn't see that coming.
--Ian Gould
From Not Quite What I Was Planning, Six-word memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure.
--Ian Gould
From Not Quite What I Was Planning, Six-word memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure.
Wednesday, June 5, 2013
Word for the day: hadal
hadal \HEYD-l\, adjective:
1. of or pertaining to the greatest ocean depths, below approximately 20,000 feet (6500 meters).
2. of or pertaining to the biogeographic region of the ocean bottom below the abyssal zone.
Here a once-living being found the hadal current which twists in the waters of all rivers.
-- Lawrence Norfolk, The Shape of a Boar, 2000
By which I mean, if the earth itself were shrunk to the size of a lemon, the black hadal depths of even the Marianas Trench would be shallower than that moist breath of yours gathered on the lemon's skin.
-- Brad Leithauser, The Friends of Freeland, 1997
Hadal entered English in the mid-1900s, and comes from the name Hades, the Greek god of the underworld.
1. of or pertaining to the greatest ocean depths, below approximately 20,000 feet (6500 meters).
2. of or pertaining to the biogeographic region of the ocean bottom below the abyssal zone.
Here a once-living being found the hadal current which twists in the waters of all rivers.
-- Lawrence Norfolk, The Shape of a Boar, 2000
By which I mean, if the earth itself were shrunk to the size of a lemon, the black hadal depths of even the Marianas Trench would be shallower than that moist breath of yours gathered on the lemon's skin.
-- Brad Leithauser, The Friends of Freeland, 1997
Hadal entered English in the mid-1900s, and comes from the name Hades, the Greek god of the underworld.
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