A Sunday tidbit: "With glowing cheekbones and that glint of copper
showing from under her tight rubber cap on nape and forehead, she [Lucette]
evoked the Helmeted Angel of the Yukonsk Ikon whose magic effect was said to
change anemic blond maidens into konskie deti, freckled red-haired
lads, children of the Sun Horse. (Ada, Part Three,
5)"
JM: At a child's birthday party yesterday I observed how
many young lads (red-haired, brown,blond) amused themselves by playing with
colorful gas balloons.
After they breathed in helium* ( one of the choice gases
employed to fill balloons) the reverse effect from the
one promoted by "Ada"'s Yukonsk Ikon was observed: their
voices were changed into a girl's - but the effect was
temporary.
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* Helius is the Sun God of the Greek
mythology.