# St(e) Anne(e) *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 16 Jan 2005* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Jim Raylor *16 Jan 2005, 15:05* I looked for purple eyes. They are very rare! You need two recessive genes to produce them. Some people say Liz Taylor had them. Nowadays on Google you will find many Japanese references to purple eyes. I went looking because of Phaedria. In chapter 26 of 'Anne of Green Gables' our heroine imagines her bosom friend Diane to have Purple Eyes in the story she tells. Anne breaks her ankles falling off a roof... Phaedria breaks her ankle before climbing the roof... so this is all wrong, right? well Phaedria and Anne both make a good hash at pleading with the 'monsters' who guard them. I cannot look at the picture 'American Gothic' without thinking of Matthew and Marilla For much of the book I did not realise they were brother and sister, though I had suuspicions... (which book?) Phaedria and Anne both organise plays in which boys have a limited but highly significant part. Anne confesses unnecessarily to reading 'Ben Hur' when she should have been reading her lessons. David never got caught out that way when he read 'Ulysses' Anne performs to raise money for good causes, Phaedra uses the opportunity to steal from the audience. Anyway Phaedria is a brunette... they are nothing like each other. Anne lives in an ''Eavenly' place... Avonlea... a new Avalon(e) and silent 'e''s are important! ask Anne! I'm sure GW would have told us if he had read such a girlish children's book. ===== ---