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标 题: "Word-of-the-Day": sortilege
发信站: 紫 丁 香 (Tue Oct 26 18:41:52 1999), 转信
sortilege ("SOR-til-ihj") n.
origin: from the Latin "sortilegus" meaning "foretelling",
from the Latin "sors" meaning "lot",
+ "legere" meaning "to gather"
1. Divination by lots.
2. Sorcery enchantment.
"To communicate with Mars, converse with spirits,
To report the behaviour of the sea monster,
Describe the horoscope, haruspicate or scry,
Observe disease in signatures, evoke
Biography from the wrinkles of the palm
And tragedy from fingers; release omens
By sortilege, or tea leaves, riddle the inevitable
With playing cards, fiddle with pentagrams
Or barbituric acids, or dissect
The recurrent image into pre-conscious terrors ..."
--T.S. Eliot, "The Dry Salvages" in "The Four Quartets"
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