GR translation: almond fringes

[Mark Kohut]

Who sez TRP just doesn't have that Chekhovian, Tolstoyan, simple human
observational talent?

Accepting "almond fringes' as his eyelids, leads one to see that here he
shows he knows this:
eyelashes are darker on almost everyone than their leg (and body) hair....

So, "golden" leg hair would have almond-color (or darker) eyelashes. No
sloppy synonym for
golden from our genius.



On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 1:19 AM, Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
wrote:

> It seems to me the "almond fringes" are simply his eyelids, which
> could not contain the blue of his eyes so it "brims over".
>
> On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 3:08 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> > If he elided 'eyes'.....and the fringes refers to his whites...
> >
> > Hey, I'm probably wrong just throwing it out as I do...but others, you,
> > Mike,  will have to judge.
> > How do you 'prove' an elision? Why even suggest one? I ask myself.
> >
> > Because almond as a color strikes me as.....Off ..from Pynchon, but we
> know
> > how I project.
> >
> > On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 2:58 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> 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
> >>>
> >>> almond eyes shape
> >>>
> >>> 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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