Re: blue roses?

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• To: <g*@hort.net>
• Subject: Re: [CHAT] blue roses?
• From: &* <k*@comcast.net>
• Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2004 17:32:57 -0500
• References: <7EA2A92F-B59F-11D8-91E2-000A959AC6B4@rnet.com>

Cathy, I never thought to look it up.  I tried a google and got only 200
hits and all appear to have a connection to the play.  Is it possible
Tennessee Williams made it up?, or possibly a native corruption of pleurisy?
I'm going to check with my sister on this.

Kitty

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "cathy carpenter" <cathyc@rnet.com>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2004 3:49 PM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] blue roses?


> Interesting. I went to an older medical dictionary (given the date of
> 'Glass Menagerie') and then a regular dictionary. The word does not
> seem to exist. Closest would be pleurisy, a painful inflammation of the
> membrane surrounding the lungs.
> Cathy
> On Wednesday, May 26, 2004, at 01:25 PM, Kitty wrote:
>
> > No.  It sounded like blue roses.  Ah, I found it!
> > "....They continue talking, and Laura reminds him of the nickname he
> > had
> > given her: "Blue Roses," an accidental corruption of the word for
> > Laura's
> > medical condition, pleurosis...."
> >
> > Kitty
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: <Aplfgcnys@aol.com>
> > To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> > Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2004 12:48 PM
> > Subject: Re: [CHAT] blue roses?
> >
> >
> >> In a message dated 05/26/2004 12:49:44 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
> >> kmrsy@comcast.net writes:
> >>
> >>> What was the actual disease the girl had in the Glass Menagerie?
> >>>
> >>
> >> Polio?
> >>
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