 #1 (permalink) Wed Apr 11, 2007 8:50 am Expression: blobs of gilt |
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Hi,
Could you please help me with:
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| Ye Art Shoppe, Prop. Mrs. Mary Ellen Wilks, Christian Science Library open daily free. A touching fumble at beauty. A one-room shanty of boards recently covered with rough stucco. A show-window delicately rich in error: vases starting out to imitate tree-trunks but running off into blobs of gilt--an aluminum ash-tray labeled "Greetings from Gopher Prairie"--a Christian Science magazine--a stamped sofa-cushion portraying a large ribbon tied to a small poppy, the correct skeins of embroidery-silk lying on the pillow. Inside the shop, a glimpse of bad carbon prints of bad and famous pictures, shelves of phonograph records and camera films, wooden toys, and in the midst an anxious small woman sitting in a padded rocking chair. |
1. Does it mean: vases that had been purposed to imitate tree-trunks but consequently went off that purpose and became some golden masses? If so, since 'a blob' means 'an amorphous mass' how could vases come to that?
Many thanks.
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