GR translation: almond fringes

[Mark Kohut]

http://www.classic-colors.com/ENG/PRODUCTCOLOR/COLOR_Almond

almond eyes shape
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As we've learned, Pynchon sometimes elides...and he often, often packs
multiple meanings when he can.



On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 2:45 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> The text doesn't say "almond eyes."  It says "almond fringes," which means
> blond eyelashes in the context of of his "imponderable net of gold" leg
> hair and his "eyes a seldom-encountered blue."
>
> David Morris
>
> On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 1:27 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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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