Dear all, this is from 'GUT SYMMETRIES' by Jeanette Winterson. Two women are competing for some Jove. One of them is 20 years younger than another. They are going to meet.
She would be greying, she would be lined, I had dressed as a warrior: black from cleavage to insoles, hair down, fat hoops of of gold in my ears, war-paint make-up.
I wonder what cleavage the narrator means.
1) It would be only logical to mean from hair parting (from top to bottom, from head to foot). But I'm afraid cleavage cannot be used instead of hair parting.
2) Down from beneath the décolleté. Probably the narrator wears some black low-neck young people's style garment without sleeves, hence from in to insoles.
I think 2) is correct. Would you agree?
She would be greying, she would be lined, I had dressed as a warrior: black from cleavage to insoles, hair down, fat hoops of of gold in my ears, war-paint make-up.
I wonder what cleavage the narrator means.
1) It would be only logical to mean from hair parting (from top to bottom, from head to foot). But I'm afraid cleavage cannot be used instead of hair parting.
2) Down from beneath the décolleté. Probably the narrator wears some black low-neck young people's style garment without sleeves, hence from in to insoles.
I think 2) is correct. Would you agree?