Question of plausibility in Small Rain.

[David Morris]

--- William Zantzinger <williamzantzinger at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Don't want to spoil so we could look at Ch 13 and discuss how it is not
sci-fi and how it reads a bit like sci-fi. 
> 
> The chapter opens with a lolita or skirt "'deficient in botanical
reality'...." 

Yes.  The dress that Ada wears ("was permitted to wear") to her 12th BD party
is called:

"her lolita (thus dubbed after the little Andalusian gipsy of that name in
Osberg's novel and pronounced, incedentallly, with a Spanish 't,' not a thick
English one), a rather long, but very airy and ample, black skirt, with red
poppies or peonies, 'deficient in botanical reality,' as she expressed it, not
yey knowing that reality and natural science are synonomous in the terms of
this, and only this, dream.
    (Nor did you, wise Van.  Her note.)"

And her governess allows her to wear it without....

Oh, but that would be telling too much!

David Morris

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