This morning she was thinking about how toconstruct a device that could retrieve a rock after you had skipped itinto the ocean.
First sign of Violet's intelligence, as well as the beginning of the introduction to the three Baudelaire orphans' minds.
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Moller, Violet. The Map of Knowledge: A Thousand-Year History of How Classical Ideas Were Lost and Found. 1st ed. New York: Doubleday, 2019. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/546484/the-map-of-knowledge-by-violet-moller/.
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the violet hour
The violet hour or l'heure bleue is that time between dusk and twilight. The day's magical end. A time for assignations.
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hyacinths
Hyacinths feed into the death motif inasmuch as they are short-lived flowers. They rise from bulbs, making them self-sufficient, perhaps hyacinth girl is also. self-sufficient. Later Eliot invokes "the violet hour," I picture this flower in pink or violet. Maybe a reach.
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