[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"

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