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Mbdlevin@aol.com wrote:
>
> I am very happy to hear Etienne Borgers make
this
> comment. A little while
> back, I had occasion to make some spoken
comments
> about Charles Willeford,
> and I included a close look at a passage from
Burnt
> Orange Heresy that
> included the word "grisaille." The word appears
in
> chapter two; I won't
> quote the lead-in or the paragraphs that
follow
> (which loop back to that
> word), but here is the description of
Berenice
> Hollis's scar: "The coccyx
> scar had changed from an angry red to gray
and
> finally to slightly puckered
> grisaille." The word is heavily loaded. It has
a
> local artistic context
> (Figueras the narrator is an art critic), but
seems
> to have a lot of other
> energy surrounding it. SNIP
Citing Burnt Orange Heresy, and remembering its
"artistic" background and setting, we have to remember that
"grisaille" is also a word that qualifies a drawing (even a
painting)in monochrome, wherein the selected color is gray
(or sometimes dark yellow) and the drawing exclusively made
from different shades of this same color.
This certainly adds also to the figurative use of the word in
the above text.
E.Borgers Hard-boiled Mysteries http://www.geocities.com/Athens/6384
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