Digest whorl.v001.n064

Alice Turner · 19 Mar 1997, 07:50 · from whorl-v0004.mbox · original

This is the message as the crawl holds it, before anything here touched it. What the conversation shows has been through ingest: transfer encodings decoded, attachments dropped, quote markers repaired, and the archiver’s ? resolved into quotation marks and dashes. Those repairs are judgements and some of them are wrong, which is what this page is for. Email addresses are obscured here as they are everywhere else on the site, so it is before our repairs rather than byte for byte.

From: "Alice Turner" <al at interport.net>
Subject: (whorl) Re: Digest whorl.v001.n064
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 1997 07:50:01
Message-ID: <whorl-v0004-0256 at digest.urth.net>
X-Urthmirror-Source: http://www.urth.net/whorl/archives/v0004/0256.shtml
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

[Posted from Whorl, the mailing list for Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun]

.=20
>         Another question I have is that of, is Chenille a real color? It
is
> a type of material or fabric I know, but Chenille herself refers to it as
a
> color, the color that she died her hair, she also says that there are
> Chenille flowers, which I am ignorant of also. However, the word in
French
> means caterpillar, which kind of screws of the whole girl names=3Dflowers.

xury:

My new OED that I am so proud of let me down, giving only the fabric
definition (though it did please me by going back for roots past the French
caterpillar to "canicula," a hairy little dog). Wyman's Garden Encyclopedia
comes partly to the rescue:

CHENILLE COPPERLEAF (Acalypha hispida): A house plant, native of the East
Indies...the red flowers are born in spikelike drooping racemes...sometimes
it is called the Red Hot Cattail...

I have actually seen these flowers in the tropics, both the drooping ones
and another upright rather contorted kind (echevera leucotrychia) that
Wyman's lists but does not elaborate on, and yes they are fuzzy and of a
brilliant "unnatural" red--scarlet leaning toward fuschia. Think of it as
one of those punk "cellophane" dye jobs.

-alga-

Questions or problems to whorl-owner at lists.best.com

An unofficial mirror of a public mailing list · about & removal requests · download the archive · before the list · original archive at urth.net