IVIV (1) Shasta

[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)