baked in the cake; drawers

[John McChesney-Young]

On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 7:03 AM, George Thompson
<george.thompson at nyu.edu> wrote in part:

> In ca. 1960, a professor of French at Boston University, a guy who
> specialized in contemporary French writing, told me that Samuel Beckett had
> pointed out to him a passage in a George Eliot novel in which a female
> character was said to have black, glossy curls in her drawers -- referring
> to a hairpiece she kept in her vanity table....

Perhaps this, from _Mill on the Floss_, although brown curls rather than black?

http://www.georgeeliotonline.co.uk/themillonthefloss/chapter07.html

"Mrs. Glegg had doubtless the glossiest and crispest brown curls in
her drawers, as well as curls in various degrees of fuzzy laxness..."

John

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