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<DIV>I do take it (from my hunting on the internet) that there need be nothing
exceptional about babies with purple eyelids and therefore the implied argument
is that we should not annotate this. However, applying the principle that
“nothing is casual in Woolf”, I would like to be enlightened about whether or
not there is some special combination of poverty + babies + purple
eyelids!</DIV>
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<DIV>Stuart</DIV>
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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A
title=caroline.webb@newcastle.edu.au
href="mailto:caroline.webb@newcastle.edu.au">Caroline Webb</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, May 13, 2015 12:36 AM</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=danelljones@bresnan.net
href="mailto:danelljones@bresnan.net">Danell Jones</A> ; <A
title=stuart.n.clarke@btinternet.com
href="mailto:stuart.n.clarke@btinternet.com">'Stuart N. Clarke'</A> ; <A
title=vwoolf@lists.osu.edu
href="mailto:vwoolf@lists.osu.edu">vwoolf@lists.osu.edu</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> RE: [Vwoolf] "Jacob's Room": Crux #2</DIV></DIV></DIV>
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style='FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Calibri","sans-serif"; COLOR: #1f497d'>Could
they be purple with cold? Or is the skin so translucent the veins are
showing through?<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style='FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Calibri","sans-serif"; COLOR: #1f497d'>Caroline<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style='FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</SPAN></B><SPAN
lang=EN-US style='FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Vwoolf
[mailto:vwoolf-bounces@lists.osu.edu] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Danell
Jones<BR><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, 13 May 2015 7:26 AM<BR><B>To:</B> 'Stuart N.
Clarke'; vwoolf@lists.osu.edu<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Vwoolf] "Jacob's Room":
Crux #2<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN lang=EN-US
style='FONT-FAMILY: "Californian FB","serif"; COLOR: #2e74b5'>For what it’s
worth, Thackeray describes Amelia’s eyelids as purple in <I>Vanity Fair.
</I>(Collier and Son, New York, 1917, page 334) and poet Arthur Symons uses it
in <I>Amoris Victima</I>, section (Mundi Victima section III, 1902) and <I>The
jealousies of a country town. A marriage settlement<o:p></o:p></I></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN lang=EN-US
style='FONT-FAMILY: "Californian FB","serif"; COLOR: #2e74b5'>by Honoré de
Balzac also uses it to M. Sauvager. Even Henry Rider Haggard has a character,
Irene, with purple eyelids.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style='FONT-FAMILY: "Californian FB","serif"; COLOR: #2e74b5'><o:p></o:p></SPAN> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN lang=EN-US
style='FONT-FAMILY: "Californian FB","serif"; COLOR: #2e74b5'>I am thinking it
was a convention.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style='FONT-FAMILY: "Californian FB","serif"; COLOR: #2e74b5'><o:p></o:p></SPAN> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN lang=EN-US
style='FONT-FAMILY: "Californian FB","serif"; COLOR: #2e74b5'>I love all these
mysteries, Stuart! Thank you for sharing. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><B><SPAN lang=EN-US
style='FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Calibri","sans-serif"'>From:</SPAN></B><SPAN
lang=EN-US style='FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Calibri","sans-serif"'> Vwoolf
[<A
href="mailto:vwoolf-bounces@lists.osu.edu">mailto:vwoolf-bounces@lists.osu.edu</A>]
<B>On Behalf Of </B>Stuart N. Clarke<BR><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, May 12, 2015 4:44
AM<BR><B>To:</B> <A
href="mailto:vwoolf@lists.osu.edu">vwoolf@lists.osu.edu</A><BR><B>Subject:</B>
[Vwoolf] "Jacob's Room": Crux #2<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="BACKGROUND: whitesmoke"><SPAN lang=EN-US
style='FONT-FAMILY: "Calibri","sans-serif"; COLOR: black'>Towards the end of ch.
VIII:<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV></DIV>
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style='FONT-FAMILY: "Calibri","sans-serif"; COLOR: black'> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN lang=EN-US
style='FONT-FAMILY: "Calibri","sans-serif"; COLOR: black'>“</SPAN><SPAN
lang=EN-GB
style='FONT-FAMILY: "Calibri","sans-serif"; COLOR: black; mso-fareast-language: en-gb'>Shawled
women carry babies with purple eyelids”</SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-US
style='FONT-FAMILY: "Calibri","sans-serif"; COLOR: black'><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV>
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style='FONT-FAMILY: "Calibri","sans-serif"; COLOR: black'> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style='FONT-FAMILY: "Calibri","sans-serif"; COLOR: black; mso-fareast-language: en-gb'>Because
they are “shawled”, we know the women are poor. David Bradshaw tentatively
suggests lupus. I have looked on the internet, and both purple eyelids and
lupus have quite complicated causes/symptoms, from the trivial to the serious,
and so I feel are beyond me.</SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-US
style='FONT-FAMILY: "Calibri","sans-serif"; COLOR: black'><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN lang=EN-US
style='FONT-FAMILY: "Calibri","sans-serif"; COLOR: black'> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN lang=EN-US
style='FONT-FAMILY: "Calibri","sans-serif"; COLOR: black'>I have asked a doctor
friend, who says the question is difficult! “</SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-US
style='FONT-FAMILY: "Calibri","sans-serif"; COLOR: navy'>The short answer is
that I do not know any exact cause but can hazard a guess that it is a condition
seen in debilitated children or children with cyanosis such as blue lips as seen
in some chest and heart conditions such as congenital heart disease
etc.”</SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-US
style='FONT-FAMILY: "Calibri","sans-serif"; COLOR: black'><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN lang=EN-US
style='FONT-FAMILY: "Calibri","sans-serif"; COLOR: black'> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style='FONT-FAMILY: "Calibri","sans-serif"; COLOR: black; mso-fareast-language: en-gb'>Why
should poor babies have purple eyelids and, presumably, rich ones not?
Diet?</SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-US
style='FONT-FAMILY: "Calibri","sans-serif"; COLOR: black'><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN lang=EN-US
style='FONT-FAMILY: "Calibri","sans-serif"; COLOR: black'> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style='FONT-FAMILY: "Calibri","sans-serif"; COLOR: black; mso-fareast-language: en-gb'>Any
answers gratefully received.</SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-US
style='FONT-FAMILY: "Calibri","sans-serif"; COLOR: black'><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN lang=EN-US
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style='FONT-FAMILY: "Calibri","sans-serif"; COLOR: black; mso-fareast-language: en-gb'>Stuart</SPAN><SPAN
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