NPPF: Commentary 5 (notes) Lines 433-434

[bekah]

At 8:12 PM +1000 10/25/03, jbor wrote:
>on 25/10/03 8:20 AM, Jasper Fidget wrote:
>
>>  Phrynia and Timandra, Mistresses to Alcibiades.  Timon calls them harlots,
>>  whores, and sluts, and they agree that they'll "do anything for gold"
>>  (IV:iii).  I think the reference is both sexual and scholarly for Kinbote,
>>  as he's mixed (or confused) the two elsewhere.  I doubt they stand in for
>>  two real women in Charles' life though.
>
>I agree. In the dream Phrynia is "prickly-chinned" and Timandra has a "boom
>under her apron", somewhat pointedly (sorry) confirming their transvestism.
>It's as though they're male actors playing female roles, as per the
>conventions of Elizabethan and Jacobean theatre.

Well, cool! Why didn't I see that???  I just saw a prickly-pear chin 
and I never did figure the boom. (pregnant? was about as close as I 
got).


Bekah
enthralled and entangled