I´d feared that "google" instead of
"goggles" had been a misprint. Bikes and planes might fittingly require
"goggles" ( like Santos-Dumont´s flying a Demoiselle ) and yet, after
all the various comments, I think the word must have really been
intended as "google".
Stan Kelly-Bottle created an interesting image when referring to the ancient Geordie folk ballad, the Lambtom
Woorm. the beast is said to have “gryate big google eyes.”
Then
P. Roth brought up : "Barney Google," with the goog-goog-googly eyes!"
The lines, in ADA, are clearly suggestive of cartoon-strip
humor and a girl´s eyes jumping out of the sockets amid the noise
of banging tires.
VN was also sensitive to the graphic presentation of words. Google
offers us two kind of emoticon ( :->) eyes. Just as he made Marina
play with the Spanish word "cojones" ( also in Spanish "ojo/ eye" are
very pictorial!)
Jansy