GR translation: almond fringes

[David Morris]

OK, but how are eyes fringe?

On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 1:55 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> http://www.classic-colors.com/ENG/PRODUCTCOLOR/COLOR_Almond
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> almond eyes shape
> <https://www.google.com/search?q=almond+eyes+shape&newwindow=1&safe=active&client=safari&rls=en&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjshsTX8MjNAhURID4KHSVtCmMQsAQIKw&biw=1301&bih=876>
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> As we've learned, Pynchon sometimes elides...and he often, often packs
> multiple meanings when he can.
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> On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 2:45 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> 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
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>> On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 1:27 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> Almond eyes are narrow and elongated in shape. ... This shape is
>>> usually quite large and round (similar to prominent eyes).
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>>> On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 3:12 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?
>>>> -
>>>> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?listpynchon-l
>>>>
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