GR translation: almond fringes

[Mark Kohut]

There are some moments in life, some feelings; one can only point to them
and pass by.

— Ivan Turgenev

*Christopher Hayes (@chrislhayes
<https://twitter.com/chrislhayes?refsrc=email&s=11>)*

6/28/16, 7:38 PM
<https://twitter.com/chrislhayes/status/747937309350211584?refsrc=email&s=11>
Never trust anyone who tells you everyone is an idiot but him.


On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 1:23 AM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>> > 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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