V-2 - Chapter 9 - Clockwork Eye

[Robin Landseadel]

Thanks for re-posting, I'll be reading them and then look back at all  
those femmes fatales in "V."
On Oct 18, 2010, at 7:00 AM, Dave Monroe wrote:

> On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 1:47 AM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com 
> > wrote:
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>> On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 10:30 AM, Robin Landseadel
>> <robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:
>>
>>> Her clockwork eye.
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>> http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0104&msg=54587
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>> http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0104&msg=54593
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>> Cf. ...
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>> http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0612&msg=112844
>
> From Mario Praz, The Romantic Agony (2nd ed., trans. Angus Davidson,
> New York: Oxford UP, 1951 [1933]), Appendix I, "Swinburne and 'Le Vice
> Anglais,'" pp. 415-33 ...
>
> "The mixture of flowers and instruments of torture is to be found also
> in O. Mirbeau's Jardin des supplices (written in 1898-9); but in this
> the English sadist is a woman instead of a man, a woman with eyes
> 'verts, pailletes d'or', like here 'diabolical' sister described by
> Barbey d'Aurevilly in the Dessous de cartes, the Comtesse de
> Stasseville ('ces deux emeraudes, striees de jaune ...').  Eyes of
> this type seem to be a regular characteristic of the sadists in the
> works we are discussing...." (425)
>
> I.e., "green, sequined with gold" and "two emeralds, streaked with
> yellow."  Further, exhaustive examples, discussion nigh unto ad
> nauseam @, e.g., ...
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> "The woman's eyes are green ('les deux etoiles vertes de ses
> regards'), as is usual in such cases (the eyes of sadistic characters
> in popular Romantic literature are, as a rule, green)...." (Praz, p.
> 313)
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> http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0312&msg=87806
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>   "Renata was gazing at him thoughtfully from huge eyes of a curious
> verdigrised bronze color." (AtD, Pt. I, p. 252)
>
> Main Entry: ver·di·gris
> Pronunciation: 'v&r-d&-"grEs, -"gris, -gr&s also -"grE
> Function: noun
> Etymology: Middle English vertegrese, from
> Anglo-French verdegrece, vert de Grece, literally, green of Greece
> 1 a : a green or greenish-blue poisonous pigment resulting from the
> action of acetic acid on copper and consisting of one or more basic
> copper acetates b : normal copper acetate Cu(C2H3O2)2·H2O
> 2 : a green or bluish deposit especially of copper carbonates formed
> on copper, brass, or bronze surfaces
>
> http://m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?va=verdigris
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