re IVIV (1) Shasta

[rich]

I see Shasta as less of a heavy than say Frenesi or Lake--she is not
all that unsympathetic

rich

On 8/25/09, Doug Millison <DOUGMILLISON at comcast.net> wrote:
> "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)
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> 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."
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> 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."
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> 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)
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