Do you feel like your vocabulary could do with a little zhushing? Then this is the space for you!Each week I will unearth a new word to play with. If you would like to join in, write a post incorporating this week's word, then come back and leave a comment with your link so what we can all read your work. To make it easy for us to find your WW entry, incorporate the button into your post.........................................................
Do you feel like your vocabulary could do with a little zhushing? Then this is the space for you!
Each week I will unearth a new word to play with. If you would like to join in, write a post incorporating this week's word, then come back and leave a comment with your link so what we can all read your work. To make it easy for us to find your WW entry, incorporate the button into your post.
Lacuna[noun] An empty space, gap, missing part, an opening.From the Latin lacuna [hole, gap], from lacus [lake].
Before picking up Barbara Kingsolver's latest novel, I had never heard of this word before.
I'm not sure if I'll be able to wrangle it into my everyday speech but it is intriguing nonetheless.
As for the book, I won't spoil the story for you but if you are interested in art [especially Diego Rivera & Frida Kahlo's], Mexico, Communism, world history from the 1940's then this might be a read to fill the gap of many hours. The publisher Harper Collins shares the following:
"Through darkening years, political winds continue to toss 'Harrison Shepherd' between north and south in a plot that turns many times on the unspeakable breach - the lacuna - between truth and public presumption."
Now as for our word of the week, I would love it if you could tell me if you've ever explored a lacuna or gap in real life? Perhaps it was an underwater cave, a ravine, a door leading to a large, dark space - I'd be intrigued to learn of your experience.
And remember to enter the fabulous Annette Piper giveaway, it would be a pleasure to know that her gorgeous pearl earrings would be gracing your ears.
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I once explored a Lucuna in my heart. A missing piece to a puzzle. I wrote a post about it but quickly retracted for it's brutality. Although the truth is what ultimately sets us free, sometimes it is easier to deal with that empty space where the truth should be. But what I discovered was that by ignoring the signs symptoms manifest in other ways. The only brave way to live is by dealing with our fears and leaping straight into the Lacuna, beacause though the journey may be perilous on the other side is pure love and light.
ReplyDelete(I still haven't finished reading The Lacuna, my husband just took it away with him so Thanks for not spilling the beans!)
Wow Sim, you really bowled me over with this comment.
ReplyDeleteI don't know why, but I'd never thought about a lacuna of the heart, and you're so right when you say that the only brave way is to leap straight in.
As for the book, I'm onto the last 100 pages and am torn between trying to make it last and wanting to find out what happens. I hope you get to finish it soon too.
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I adore Frida Kahlo's work and have always been fascinated by her relationship with Diego Rivera so I shall definitely have to read this book! As for exploring a real life Lacuna... you have just given me an idea for a blog post!!! I will link it back to this one when I next go down to Depot Beach in April and can take some photos! x
ReplyDeleteAh, Felicity, another of my favourite words. I gave that book to my sister but haven't tried it yet. I think blogging has filled a lacuna in me I didn't even know existed. But you know that ☺. J x
ReplyDeleteThanks for this word Felicity. I have the book sitting in my shelf, it was a gift a couple of Christmases ago and it hasn't made it to the top of my list yet. I had no idea what the title meant. If I'd had to guess, I'd have said that a Lacuna might have been a low-down but charming character, a conman, a shifty sort of cad. How wrong!
ReplyDeleteYour description of the Lacuna - all spatial and mysterious - reminds me of a recurring nightmare I have. It's of a haunted kind of space, a 'wing' of a big house which is simultaneously magnetic and utterly frightening. It feels as though it is going to consume me. There's nothing 'there', just space, but very loaded, powerful and scary space.
Ahh, off to bed now - I shouldn't have brought that up! I'll have to think about diving in a beautiful underwater cave instead.
Sweet dreams (to us both!)
x Sarah
I do love discovering new books. Will buy this on my next visit to the bookstore. Been enjoying your Word of the Week posts. Super! ;-D
ReplyDeleteEmma - can't wait to read your lacuna post and keep your peepers open next Tuesday for a bit of Rivera Kohlo inspired art work.
ReplyDeleteJane - I think you might enjoy "The Lacuna" if you can manage to snaffle it back - as for blogging filling a lacuna that you didn't know existed - snap!
Sarah - I know what you're saying about having a guess at what a lacuna was - I thought an animal of some sort & if it hadn't been for the gorgeous cover art I admit I probably wouldn't have chosen to read this based on the title - thank goodness for great art!
You've made me think, perhaps I should pop up an ambiguous word in this section one week and have people guess what it means.
As for your wonderfully described dream - I'm so glad that I read this comment in the morning rather than just before going to bed!
Supermac - I hope you enjoy it, I'm savouring the last pages.
Ms Cate.....where for art thou Ms Cate?
xxxxxx to all Felicity
I was feeling Lacuna until I met Matt.
ReplyDeleteI want some Lacuna in my clothes.
I once had a big Lacuna in between my 2 front teeth.
I sometimes dream of going Lacuna by myself.
Some days I have Lacuna in my head.
naomi x
Oh I did leave a comment babe!! I dhon't know where in the ether it has wandered off to??
ReplyDeleteBut What I said was I do actually know this word! It is used in anatomical terminology - especially with respect to bone and collagen structure - but yes, I agree that it is probably a tricky one to work into conversation :-)
xxxCate
Naomi you 'crack' me up!
ReplyDeleteAh Ms Cate there you be - your comment is truly fascinating and it makes sense that it would be used in anatomy.
xx F
hmmm Lacuna so it means empty, a gap. a missing part, an opening. So it misses something even though it implies it is a nothingness. What surrounds its boundaries defines it therefore we say it is empty but actually it is full just not of what should be there but with something else. Empty is a subjective state defined in translation.
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