[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > She taps her glass with an emery file > Watching three rings in the sun
The three rings could also be the concentric rings of liquid when she tapped her glass..(out on her balcony) > > > I've always thought of it as the three-ring circus that Marlena is watching > from the window. And it's a brilliant little piece of writing...she uses the > metaphor of the tenth floor room as the balcony of an opera house, it just so > happens that the opera referenced is Pagliacci, which is about a clown, which > is most commonly found in a 3-ring circus, hence "three rings in the sun". > Just my take on it, of course. > > It's all a dream she has awake... > > Bob > > NP: Hanne Boel, "How Do You Stop"
