GR translation: almond fringes

[David Morris]

Jezebel Louise.
Has explication become this low?

God help us.

David Morris

On Tuesday, June 28, 2016, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','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
>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','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
>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','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
>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','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
>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','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
>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','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
>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','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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