Mar 4, 2008 23:21
16 yrs ago
English term
alexander
those useful things
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English
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Poetry & Literature
"She looked at him with her well-known, well-loved face from Spur and Town and Country only a little the worse for drink, only a little the worse for bed, but Town and Country never showed those good breasts and those useful things and those lightly small-of-back-caressing hands,"
What are these "things" and why?
I suppose these are buttocks because the word was used a few pages above concerning another woman: "big-breasted and needed no pillow under her buttocks,", but I am not sure. Is it some quotation perhaps?
What are these "things" and why?
I suppose these are buttocks because the word was used a few pages above concerning another woman: "big-breasted and needed no pillow under her buttocks,", but I am not sure. Is it some quotation perhaps?
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| 4 +6 | those useful thighs |
Kim Metzger
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Mar 4, 2008 23:41: Kim Metzger changed "Level" from "Non-PRO" to "PRO"
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Kim Metzger
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those useful thighs
It looks like you've got a typo on your hands. In this version of Hemingway's story it's "thighs" not "things." I'm not quite sure how thighs can be useful, unless he's referring to energetic sex.
The Snows of Kilimanjaro
She looked at him with her well-known, well-loved face from Spur and Town & Country, only a little the worse for drink, only a little the worse for bed, but Town & Country never showed those good breasts and those useful thighs and those lightly small-of-back-caressing hands, and as he looked and saw her well-known pleasant smile, he felt death come again.
http://www.hse.k12.in.us/staff/jgastineau/snows.htm
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Note added at 52 mins (2008-03-05 00:14:41 GMT)
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"Spur" and "Town and Country" are high society magazines.
The Snows of Kilimanjaro
She looked at him with her well-known, well-loved face from Spur and Town & Country, only a little the worse for drink, only a little the worse for bed, but Town & Country never showed those good breasts and those useful thighs and those lightly small-of-back-caressing hands, and as he looked and saw her well-known pleasant smile, he felt death come again.
http://www.hse.k12.in.us/staff/jgastineau/snows.htm
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Note added at 52 mins (2008-03-05 00:14:41 GMT)
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"Spur" and "Town and Country" are high society magazines.
Peer comment(s):
| agree |
Jack Doughty
: No room for doubt about this one.
17 mins
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| agree |
Gary D
3 hrs
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| agree |
jerrie
9 hrs
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| agree |
Suzan Hamer
10 hrs
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| agree |
Jim Tucker (X)
20 hrs
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| agree |
V_Nedkov
2 days 16 hrs
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
Comment: "Selected automatically based on peer agreement."
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