GR translation: almond fringes

[Mike Jing]

So the "almond" refers to the color then?

On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 7:28 AM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> I think almond fringes are his blond eyelashes.
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> David Morris
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> On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 2:12 AM, Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>> V102.18-26   Gottfried, in the cage, watches her slip her bonds and
>> go. Fair and slender, the hair on his legs only visible in sunlight
>> and then as a fine, imponderable net of gold, his eyelids already
>> wrinkling in oddly young/old signatures, flourishes, the eyes a
>> seldom-encountered blue that on certain days, in sync with the
>> weather, is too much for these almond fringes and brims over, seeps,
>> bleeds out to illuminate the boy’s entire face, virgin-blue,
>> drowned-man blue, blue drawn so insatiably into the chalky walls of
>> Mediterranean streets we quietly cycled through in noontimes of the
>> old peace. . . .
>>
>>
>> Does the "almond" in "almond fringes" refer to shape? Or something else?
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