Akiko, you asked me why I didn´t mention yesterday the Venetian Moor ( in Julia Moore) in connection to my references to Shakespeare which you´d already brought up at the list.
I thought that the "balcony scenes" in Romeo and Juliet traversed Transparent Things, insistently. They were not casual references suggested by the words themselves.
The color green in Othello is also important as "that green-eyed monster" and establishes a second link to the "venetian blinds/moor" allusions. But I´m not as familiar with Shakespeare as I should be...
I was fascinated with the connection bt. green and virginity, as it also extends to Lucette in ADA. Also the Moon and Sun alternations. Dawn.Ascensions. Falls.

There was another reference to Juliet which only when thinking about your mail then occurred to me. There is a paragraph about a "sleeping beauty and a dragon´s climb" and, of course, Juliet was another sleeping beauty, not only Princess Aurora ( Dawn!) and Snow-white with the apple-bite of the children´s fairy- stories.
It seems that VN managed to embrace all these things to create something rather novel while commenting on "authoring" !