| 释义 |
nyctograph|ˈnɪktəgrɑːf, -æ-|
[f. nycto- + -graph.]
A device invented by ‘Lewis Carroll’ with which one can record one's ideas at night, in the dark, or when not fully awake.
1891‘L. Carroll’ Diary 24 Sept. (1953) II. xiv. 486 Today I conceived the idea of having a series of squares, cut out in card, and devising an alphabet, of which each letter could be made of lines along the edges of the squares, and dots at the corners... I shall call it ‘The Typhlograph’. (24/10/91. Instead of ‘typhlograph’ I have adopted ‘Nyctograph’ at the suggestion of Warner). 1898S. D. Collingwood Life & Lett. L. Carroll vii. 295 In 1891 he conceived the device..and he named it the ‘Typhlograph’, but, at the suggestion of one of his brother-students, this was subsequently changed into ‘Nyctograph’. 1930W. de la Mare Eighteen-Eighties 236 He invented..poetical acrostics and the nyctograph. 1959R. Thomson Psychol. Thinking x. 198 Lewis Carroll derived so much from this source [sc. hypnagogic imagery] that he invented a peculiar instrument, the ‘nyctograph’, to enable him to jot down ideas without fully waking up. |