In a message dated 8/26/2010 10:57:58 AM Central Daylight Time, skylark05@MAIL.RU writes:

Matt Roth: In Canto Two, Shade describes his "little scissors" (183) as a "synthesis of sun and star." I have never understood this image. I've looked at my own nail scissors in an attempt to see what Shade was seeing, alas to no avail. Help!

The lighter parts of the nails (the bottoms, that is) are usually called "moons."

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