Auteur: Christophe BENOIT (christophe.benoit@cegedim.fr)
Date: Wed May 19 1999 - 10:31:00 CEST
Adrien Honda-Bornhauser a écrit:
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> Salut,
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> Toute cette histoire de couleur de cheveux m'a rappelé que la faq de la ml us aborde la question (faut croire que ceux d'en face ont longuement disserté de la question...). Voilà ce que l'on y trouve:
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> A8) What color is Florimel's hair?
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> NPiA, Chapter 2: "The woman behind the desk wore a wide-collared, V-necked dress of blue-green, had long-haired low bangs, all of a cross between sunset clouds and the outer edge of a candle flame in an otherwise dark room, and natural I somehow knew, and her eyes behind glasses I didn't think
> she needed were as blue as lake Erie at three o'clock on a cloudless summer afternoon; and the color of her compressed smile matched her hair."
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> SotU, Chapter 4: "Pale gold, her hair. She had cut it, but retained the bangs. I could not decide whether I liked it that way or not. She had very lovely hair."
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> Sunset clouds are seldom yellow, and it's doubtful that Florimel wears blonde lipstick (though one never knows.) While the second quote is unambiguous, from the first quote, it appears as if Florimel is a natural redhead. Even if Corwin's memory was failing him when he said he knew it was natural, you'd think he might have said something if Flora's Trump representation had blonde hair. So what's going on? Some possibilities:
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> 1. Zelazny made a mistake and gave Florimel different hair colors. It's possible, although not terribly likely. He mentions a change in her bangs; it seems odd that he would say something like that and then get her hair color wrong. On the other hand, Delwin's Trump has reddish hair but when Merlin sees him in the hall of mirrors, he has blondish hair.
> 2. Florimel's hair actually changes color between NPiA and SotU. Corwin's "I could not decide whether I liked it that way or not" easily could be referring to the change in hair color as well as styling. Perhaps Florimel (gasp) dyes her hair from time to time, or her hair color fluctuates naturally. Maybe she's a shapeshifter. :)
> 3. Chris Doherty (cpdohert@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca) has spent some time staring at sunset clouds (pale orange, he claims) and a candle's flame in a dark room (which he says is bright yellow). Seizing on the word "cross", he believes the first passage is an artistic attempt to describe gold-colored hair. He also says pale orange or peach lipstick was not uncommon in the early 70's when NPiA was set so the compressed smile works out alright.
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> >Grisatre??? ou est la resemblance avec la bougie et le levet de soleil?
> Si je ne m'abuse, Edriwing me demandait la couleur de la femme dessinée par Canty sur la version de Lady Ice que j'ai.
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Tout a fait. Mais Zel avait dit que cette personne correspondait
beaucoup a l'image qu'il se faisait de Flora. Alors est-ce seulement une
ressemblance d'estetique général (le regard, la silhouette, le charisme)
come semblerait l'indiquer le conflit de couleur de cheuveux ou est-ce
une reprenstation quasi exacte??
Sinon pour la couleur de Flora, j'ai tendance à la mettre en blonde
venitiene ou blonde or, ca depend de la météo :-)
>Kriss, eclaireur des forces d'exploration royales ambriennes.
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