GR translation: almond fringes

[Mark Kohut]

Almond eyes are narrow and elongated in shape. ... This shape is usually
quite large and round (similar to prominent eyes).

On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 3:12 AM, Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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?
> -
> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?listpynchon-l
>
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