Himples
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Jump to navigationJump to search- Himmel: (German) heavens, sky
- pimples
- nipples → beneath visible areas of the breasts, they are hidden by the clothing ("we may take our review of the two mounds to see nothing of the himples") → preceding references to women's clothing ("in their swishawish satins and their taffetaffe tights"), this and the words "two mounds" seems to refer to two breasts and nipples; this reference immediately follows images of a woman feeding someone (tending a fire with a bellows and making eggs)
- him → followed by here, i.e. her
