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I raked off the piles of oak leaves which had settled down over them – if I didn’t, the stems might become etoliated through lack of light (they’d yellow, grow weak, and fall over) and the flowers would be hidden.
knitandpurl commented on the word etoliated
"And so it was not with the pleasure which otherwise I should doubtless have felt that I suddenly discerned at my feet, crouching among the rocks for protection against the heat, the marine goddesses for whom Elstir had lain in wait and whom he had surprised there, beneath a dark glaze as lovely as Leonardo would have painted, the marvellous shadows, sheltering furtively, nimble and silent, ready at the first glimmer of light to slip behind the stone, to hide in a cranny, and prompt, once the menacing ray had passed, to return to the rock or the seaweed over whose torpid slumbers they seemed to be keeping vigil, beneath the sun that crumbled the cliffs and the etiolated ocean, motionless lightfoot guardians darkening the water's surface with their viscous bodies and the attentive gaze of their deep blue eyes."
-- Within a Budding Grove by Marcel Proust, translated by C.K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin, Revised by D.J. Enright, p 689 of the Modern Library paperback edition
May 7, 2008
reesetee commented on the word etoliated
Knitandpurl, did you mean etiolated? :-)
May 7, 2008