Difference between revisions of "Rocking grasses"

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looking glass: a mirror (L/R split) → Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There → Issy's vanity glass in which her split personality is reflected

shamrock: a three-leafed Irish plant supposedly used by St Patrick to demonstrate the mystery of Holy Trinity to Irish converts

rock grass → in FW the twin sons Shem and Shaun are identified with stem and stone, hence rocking grasses contains an allusion to Shaun and Shem respectively → cf. stone pine → one of the most prominent aspects of the combined Shem-Shaun character is Tristan, i.e. tree-stone

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	* '''shamrock:''' a three-leafed Irish plant supposedly used by St Patrick to demonstrate the mystery of Holy Trinity to Irish converts		* '''shamrock:''' a three-leafed Irish plant supposedly used by St Patrick to demonstrate the mystery of Holy Trinity to Irish converts
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		+	* '''rock grass''' → in FW the twin sons Shem and Shaun are identified with ''stem'' and ''stone'', hence '''rocking grasses''' contains an allusion to Shaun and Shem respectively → cf. [[stone pine]] → one of the most prominent aspects of the combined Shem-Shaun character is Tristan, i.e. ''tree-stone''