GR translation: almond fringes

[Mike Jing]

Just to clarify, in the sentence, I read "his eyelids" as the
antecedent of "these
almond fringes". Someone please correct me if I am terribly mistaken.

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?
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>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
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