re IVIV (1) Shasta

[Doug Millison]

"Her hair was a fine tawny wave cut much shorter than the current  
fashion of pageboy tresses curled in at the bottom."
-The Big Sleep  (paragraph 6 of the novel, on p. 590 in my Vol. 1 of  
the 2-vol. Library of America edition)

There's another reference to hair on this novel's first page, second  
paragraph: "a knight in dark armor rescuing a lady who was tied to a  
tree and didn't have any clothes on but some very long and convenient  
hair."


Otto:
"Tonight she was all in flatland gear, hair a lot shorter than he  
remembered, looking just like she swore she’d never look."
Someone has "betrayed" his former "ideology" - "looking just like she  
swore she’d never look."

That "hair a lot shorter than he remembered" reminds me of something  
I've read on the second page of "The Big Sleep", where Marlowe says  
something about hair that is much shorter than the actual fashion  
would require. Got the German text only:

"Sie hatte hübsche lohfarbenes Haar, das viel kürzer geschnitten war,  
als es die derzeitige Mode mit ihren eingerollten Pagenkopffransen
verlangte." (- "Der große Schlaf", Diogenes, Zürich 1974, p. 6)