Re: Varon
| From: | Almaran Dungeonmaster <dungeonmaster@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, January 22, 2002, 7:52 |
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Roger Mills wrote:
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> Her eldest son went to Boodle's and White's [upper-class clubs]
> Her second son blued everything and fled--
> But imagine the Duchess's feelings,
> When her youngest son went Red."
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> I don't think I was mis-hearing "blew", which is US usage. I think I've
> encountered this use of "blue"in, perhaps, Evelyn Waugh.
I am sure you understood it correctly. If we look closely, we see that each
son is identified by a color: the oldest went to WHITE's, the second BLUEd
everything and the last one went RED... I don't know the context of this
poem, but it looks like a heavy form of symbolism to me (they are the colors
of the British flag, for instance).
Maarten
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