RE: White Horses

["Forward, Jonathan" <JForward@sitgbsd1.telecom.com.au>]

> Date: Wednesday, 3 April 1996 4:21PM

 Violet wrote:

> I wrote:
> >>And the two women share pet images, references to "white horses"
> >>being one that hits me right away.
>
> And Anders replied:
> >Close, but no cigar. The "white horses" in "Under Ice" are no horses,
> >they are the white foam on the top of the waves in the water.
>
> Very cigar. ;)  I am aware that Kate is using this imagery as a mataphor
> for the crest of waves.  Tori's "white horses" aren't literal horses,
> either.

 If the bits of white foam on the tops of the waves reach the shore, would
 they be littoral horses?


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