fish of the day

FRIDAY, 20 NOVEMBER 2009

At the beginning of “In the House of the Spirits”,
Isobelle Allende introduces the character Rosa
(the family's eldest daughter, who represents the "angelic", while the youngest daughter represents "satanic"):

“The tone of her skin, with its soft bluish lights, and of her hair, as well as her slow movements and silent character, all made one think of some inhabitant of the sea. There was something of the fish to her (if she had had a scaly tail, she would have been a mermaid), but her two legs placed her squarely on the tenuous line between a human being and a creature of myth.”