GR translation: in leaf or flower

[Mark Kohut]

http://ezinearticles.com/?Woman-As-A-Flower&id=6542409


trope probably goes back  before Shakespeare and beyond
Georgia O'Keefe's very female-metaphoric flowers..........


---- Original Message -----
From: Bekah <bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net>
To: David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>; Pynchon Mailing List <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Monday, December 12, 2011 9:15 AM
Subject: Re: GR translation: in leaf or flower

Agreed and I would say between the ages of 16 or so and 70 -  not "buds" (under mid-teen) and not ancient or dried up,  but women from their early days to full bloom. 

Bekah

On Dec 12, 2011, at 6:00 AM, David Morris wrote:

> I think he's refering to women as spring plants amidst a wintery city.
> 
> On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 2:43 AM, Mike Jing
> <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com> wrote:
>> P22.36-P23.6  The stars he pastes up are colored only to go with how
>> he feels that day, blue on up to golden. Never to rank a single
>> one—how can he? Nobody sees the map but Tantivy, and Christ they’re
>> all beautiful . . . in leaf or flower around his wintering city, in
>> teashops, in the queues babushkaed and coatwrapped, sighing, sneezing,
>> all lisle legs on the curbstones, hitch-hiking, typing or filing with
>> pompadours sprouting yellow pencils, he finds them—dames, tomatoes,
>> sweater girls—yes it is a little obsessive maybe but . . . “I know
>> there is wilde love and joy enough in the world,“ preached Thomas
>> Hooker, „as there are wilde Thyme, and other herbes; but we would have
>> garden love, and garden joy, of Gods owne planting.”
>> 
>> Is there any special meaning to the phrase "in leaf or flower"?