GR translation: her crepe-paper and spider-italics young ladyhood

[Mike Jing]

Thanks for the reply, Jochen, Mark, and Elisabeth.

On Fri, Dec 4, 2015 at 5:14 AM, Elisabeth Romberg <eromberg at mac.com> wrote:

> crepe paper - I think its the particular paper used to soak up excess ink.
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> 4. des. 2015 kl. 10.58 skrev Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>:
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> Have you ever tried writing or drawing on crepe paper? Maybe like that?
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> Sent from my iPad
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> On Dec 4, 2015, at 4:44 AM, Jochen Stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com> wrote:
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> I would think that alludes to a style of handwriting associated with young
> ladyhood.
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> 2015-12-04 9:29 GMT+01:00 Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>:
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>> V661.12-25   “You, poor Katje. Your story is the saddest of all. She
>> looks up to see exactly how his face will be mocking her. She is stunned to
>> see tears instead running, running over his cheeks. “You’ve only been set
>> free,” his voice then breaking on the last word, his face brushing forward
>> a moment into a cage of hands, then uncaging again for a try at her own gay
>> waltztime gallows laugh. Oh, no, is he about to go goofy on her too? What
>> she needs right now in her life, from some man in her life, is stability,
>> mental health and strength of character. Not this. “I told Slothrop he was
>> free, too. I tell anybody who might listen. I will tell them as I tell you:
>> you are free. You are free. You are free . . . .”
>>         “How can my story be sadder than that?” Shameless girl, she isn’t
>> humoring him, she’s actually flirting with him now, any technique her
>> crepe-paper and spider-italics young ladyhood ever taught her, to keep from
>> having to move into his blackness.
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>> What is "spider-italics" referring to here?
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> Elisabeth Romberg
> eromberg at mac.com
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