Both Uses of
cataract
in
Fahrenheit 451
- He felt her there, he saw her without opening his eyes, her hair burnt by chemicals to a brittle straw, her eyes with a kind of cataract unseen but suspect far behind the pupils, the reddened pouting lips, the body as thin as a praying mantis from dieting, and her flesh like white bacon.
p. 45.9 *cataract = clouding of the natural lens of the eye
- Montag moved back to his own house, left the window wide, checked Mildred, tucked the covers about her carefully, and then lay down with the moonlight on his cheekbones and on the frowning ridges in his brow, with the moonlight distilled in each eye to form a silver cataract there.†
p. 15.5
Definitions:
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(1)
(cataract) clouding of the natural lens of the eye
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Much more rarely, cataract can reference falling water as from a waterfall or series of rapids and waterfalls.