SLPAD 22 - tendrils

[Michael Bailey]

I only found the 2 references to tendrils in the Intro, plus “faint
tendrils of nausea” afflicting Flange.

“Tendril” singular occurs once in the Intro, and once in “Under the Rose.”

Merriam-Webster has this to say:

a leaf, stipule, or stem modified into a slender spirally coiling sensitive
organ serving to attach a climbing plant to its support
2
: something suggestive of a tendril


Oxford Languages defines tendril as

a slender threadlike appendage of a climbing plant, often growing in a
spiral form, that stretches out and twinesaround any suitable support.

   1.
      - something resembling a plant tendril, especially a slender curl or
      ringlet of hair.
      "the wind fitfully moved the dark tendrils around her forehead"






      There aren’t any in AtD, or BE, though tendrils do occur twice in GR.



      TS Eliot cite, from “Burnt Norton”

      Time and the bell have buried the day,
      The black cloud carries the sun away.
      Will the sunflower turn to us, will the clematis
      Stray down, bend to us; tendril and spray
      Clutch and cling?

      Chill
      Fingers of yew be curled
      Down on us? After the kingfisher's wing
      Has answered light to light, and is silent, the light is still
      At the still point of the turning world.