From: Bob Lines (boblines@ODYSSEY.APANA.ORG.AU)
Date: Wed Jan 27 1999 - 03:18:14 PST
Mr Dickens, In my reading I frequently come across characters who have red hair or red whiskers who are disreputable to some degree. You yourself,sir, (as David Copperfield) continually refer to Uriah Heep's red hair calling him at one time Red Whisker and at another Rufus. I am reminded also of Meryl Streep's rufous locks in her role as the French Lieutenant's Woman - a lady of questionable morality. Was there a stigma attached to russet hair or was it a literary device to damn the character as lacking respectability in the eyes of the reader? The (belated)compliments of the season, sir. Bob