Re: Carpenters...

Camille Scaysbrook (verona_beach@geocities.com)
Wed, 03 Mar 1999 17:20:59 +1100

Matt Kozusko wrote:
> I don't know where this leaves Sharon.  Perhaps with her "lips shut,"
> she prefigures the silent, cigar smoking uncle of "Roofbeam."    

... to me `lips shut' implies someone who won't tell something. Or who has
been instructed not to tell. Consulting my Yiddish dictionary I find that
`lip' is an anatomical term for lip if that makes sense - that is (I think)
more like `rim' - not to be instantly associated with the things on our
mouth. `Schutz' I couldn't find the meaning of - any Red Sea Pedestrians
out there know what it literally translates as?

If you want to get a little gross about it, the name could also imply
frigidity. But maybe I've been reading too much Bloomsbury set stuff lately
(:

Camille
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