TRTR(I.2) Shadow O'er a Sallow Land [p. 75]

[Jed Kelestron]

"Paris simmered stickily under the shadowed erection of the Eiffel Tower"

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Empress Theodora, "fair of face and charming as well, but short and
inclined to pallor, not indeed completely without color but slightly
sallow . .  .,"

This is a quote from "Secret History" by the Byzantine historian,
Procopius, who wrote extensively on Emperor Justinian, spouse of
Theodora. The quote is in Chapter X, 'HOW JUSTINIAN CREATED A NEW LAW
PERMITTING HIM TO MARRY A COURTESAN.' Citations in several history and
art history books use the quote Gaddis uses here, but translations of
"Secret History" are often different. E.g.,

"Now Theodora was fair of face and of a very graceful, though small,
person; her complexion was moderately colorful, if somewhat pale; and
her eyes were dazzling and vivacious."
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/procop-anec.html

"Now Theodora was fair of face and in general attractive in
appearance, but short of stature and lacking in colour, being,
however, not altogether pale but rather sallow, and her glance was
always intense and made with contracted brows."
http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Procopius/Anecdota/10*.html

"May I never put off this purple" refers to the purple column bearing
a statue of Theodora outside the bath in Arcadianae.

"There also the Empress Theodora stands upon a column, which the city
in gratitude for the court dedicated to her. The statue is indeed
beautiful, but still inferior to the beauty of the Empress; for to
express her loveliness in words or to portray it in a statue would be,
for a mere human being, altogether impossible. The column is purple,
and it clearly declares even before one sees the statue that it bears
an Empress."
  --found in "Buildings" by Procopius