Both Uses of
Cupid
in
In Cold Blood
- It was a passable likeness, and the artist perceived one not very obvious aspect of the sitter's countenance-its mischief, an amused, babyish malice that suggested some unkind cupid aiming envenomed arrows.†
Chpt 2 *Cupid = Roman mythology: god of love
- Here was a picture of the two together bathing naked in a diamond-watered Colorado creek, the brother, a pot-bellied, sun-blackened cupid, clutching his sister's hand and giggling, as though the tumbling stream contained ghostly tickling fingers.†
Chpt 3
Definitions:
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(1)
(Cupid) Roman mythology: god of love; a small, winged boy whose arrows make those struck fall in love
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
In earlier Greek mythology, Cupid was strikingly handsome.