Auteur: Adrien Honda-Bornhauser (peekaboo@club-internet.fr)
Date: Fri Apr 28 2000 - 01:22:16 CEST
Hullo,
>je pensais que flora etait plus dans le style blonde
>platine
Oh non...pas tant que ça. Tiens voilà un extrait de la faq de la ml
us qui traîte du sujet:
A8) What color is Florimel's hair?
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."
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."
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:
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.
>benedict me semble trop maigre!! il est quand meme le
>maitre d'armes d'ambre, il a combattu sur d'innombrables
>champs de batailles et je pense qu'il doit plutot avoir une
>carrure style rugbyman (facon demi de mele quand meme faut
>pas exagerer)
Euh...m'y connaissant autant en rugby qu'en tapisserie iranienne de
la fin du Vème siècle, c'est baraqué ou non un demi de mélée?
Enfin...sinon, je ne suis pas sûr qu'un maître d'armes doive être
très baraqué et être un poids lourd. Si l'on prend les "artistes
martiaux", ben ils sont musclés et tout, mais ils ressemblent le plus
souvent à des poids plumes. Et pour prendre un exemple européen, si
tu prends un champion d'épée comme Éric Srecki (j'espère ne pas faire
de faute), qui est sans doute ce qui s'est fait de mieux en
épée...ben c'est un grand dadais plutôt mince tout plein. Donc
non...franchement sans aller jusqu'à la maigreur, je pense qu'un
maître d'arme n'a pas besoin d'être "massif".
> DOM
Tcho-o
Arslan
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