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Ella has learned from her research that the blue color in her dream is that of the precious lapis lazuli pigment used in Renaissance paintings to emphasize the Virgin??s miraculous agency. And as the color recurs throughout Chevalier’s novel, it becomes a motif for Isabella’s and Ella’s own searches for agency...
...Ella, the color blue carries the grave portent incarnated in a Renaissance painting she stumbles upon: “Only the Virgin??s face, dead center in the painting, moved and changed, pain and a strange peace battling in her features as she gazed down at her dead son, framed by a colour that reflected her agony...
...messages. “Leverett does well in the sex survey,” says Leverettite Alana I. Mendelsohn ’09, referring to the Harvard Independent’s annual sex survey, which in 2004 declared that Leverett had one of the highest “non-virgin?? rates of the undergraduate houses. “Maybe this has something to do with it.” That, or maybe it’s just coincidence...
...secret” confidence-building class. Roger (“Napoleon Dynamite’s” Jon Heder) is one of those sad sacks who falls into the latter category of eating shit. He’s like the 25 year-old virgin??but with even uglier sneakers. With no confidence to approach his cute Australian neighbor, Amanda—played with deft adorability by Jacinda Barrett (“The Last Kiss”)—Roger signs up for the class. When he shows up to the classroom there are about 20 other neurotic...
...children who cry as their men depart for the mountains, pity for the terrible price one man’s vendetta wreaks on lasting comradeships, and pity for the total abuse of the men who strive to protect the irrevocably-tainted innocence of this so-called “virgin?? wilderness. “Kekexili” teaches us to appreciate what we have—friendships, nature, certainty of beliefs—but breaks our heart as it takes every one of those comforts away. Tragically, it is when all of these necessary securities disappear...