Re: blue roses?

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• Subject: Re: [CHAT] blue roses?
• From: &* <k*@comcast.net>
• Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2004 19:16:14 -0500
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Judy,
That sounds reasonable.  Still, I like the sound of "Blue Roses".

Kitty

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Judy L Browning" <judybrowning@lewiston.com>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2004 6:13 PM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] blue roses?


> "osis" is a latinate suffix denoting disease, "pleur" has to do with
lungs,
> so pleurosis=lung disease or weakness. Anything from asthma to pneumonia
to
> pulmonary tuberculosis. As I recall in the play, the mother played fast &
> loose with facts and details so pleurosis may be a made up word never in
> common use.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kitty" <kmrsy@comcast.net>
> To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2004 3:32 PM
> Subject: Re: [CHAT] blue roses?
>
>
> > 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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