One picture holds the whole word: blood still on the surface, where anyone can see it. Nothing has been wiped off and nothing has been covered up. From there the word moves twice. It moves onto screens and pages, where a film keeps showing the blood instead of cutting away. And it moves, as a joke, onto stories of any kind that have not been tidied up — the messy parts still in, in full view.

gory 的核心畫面可以想成:血還留在表面上,誰都看得見。沒有擦掉,也沒有遮住。從這裡它往兩個方向走。一邊走到螢幕和書頁上:片子把鏡頭停在血上,不移開。另一邊是開玩笑的用法:一件事沒有被整理過,連難堪、瑣碎的部分都還攤在那裡。

From the word’s history

Gory is gore + -y. The older word gor meant filth or mud in Old English, and Middle English gorry meant 'muddy', before the family settled on blood — so the word has long been about something unpleasant left clinging to a surface.

gory 是 gore 加上 -y。更早的 gor 在古英文裡指髒污、爛泥,中古英文的 gorry 是「泥濘的」,後來這一族才固定在「血」上。所以這個字一直在講「有東西黏在表面上沒清掉」。

Wiktionary, "gory"

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