Auteur: Adrien Honda-Bornhauser (peekaboo@club-internet.fr)
Date: Wed Oct 11 2000 - 07:09:25 CEST
Hullo,
>peut-etre a PoC pour lequel on se demande
>quelle est la part de Lindskold.
Tu crois qu'elle a eu un grand rôle dans l'écriture du dernier?
> >Flora: vrai blonde ou fausse rouquine?
>
>Je suis incapable de resituer la citation mais ca tient a une erreur (de
>frappe AMHA) de la VF ou un passage parlant de l'une en VO mentionait le
>nom de l'autre en VF (Fiona en VO et Flora en VF). Le contexte m'avait
>paru bizarre justement a cause de ca et j'avais verifie ca specialement dans
>la VO.
Tiens me rappelle un passage de la faq de la ml us:
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.
>Patrice Mermoud (Paris - France)
Tcho-o
Arslan, qui se dit qu'il est loin le temps d'un mail par sujet... ;-)
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