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Venus
in
The Glass Castle
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- He also brought back sacks of gypsum, and Mom mixed it with water to make Venus de Milo sculptures from a rubber cast she ordered through the mail.
p. 38.1 *Venus = goddess of love in Roman mythology
- Our house was filled with stuff: papers, books, tools, lumber, paintings, art supplies, and statues of Venus de Milo painted all different colors.
p. 82.6
- "That's Venus," he said.†
p. 40.5
- Venus was only a planet, he went on, and pretty dinky compared to real stars.†
p. 40.5
- Poor old Venus didn't even make her own light, Dad said.†
p. 40.6
- I had admired Venus even before that Christmas.†
p. 40.7
- And he gave me Venus.†
p. 40.8
- Dad explained light-years and black holes and quasars and told us about the special qualities of Betelgeuse, Rigel, and Venus.†
p. 40.9
- Venus didn't have any moons or satellites or even a magnetic field, but it did have an atmosphere sort of similar to Earth's, except it was superhot—about five hundred degrees or more.†
p. 41.4
- "So," Dad said, "when the sun starts to burn out and Earth turns cold, everyone here might want to move to Venus to get warm.†
p. 41.7
- I thought of telling him about binary numbers and the Glass Castle and Venus and all the things that made my dad special and completely different from his dad, but I knew Billy wouldn't understand.†
p. 83.3
- I didn't have any jewelry and it had been a long time since anyone had given me a present, except for the planet Venus.†
p. 84.6
- But Venus wasn't a star.†
p. 247.1
- The city lights obscured the stars, but on clear nights, I could see Venus on the horizon, up over the dark water, glowing steadily.†
p. 281.9
Definitions:
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(Venus as in: the Olympian goddess) Roman mythology: goddess of love
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(meaning too common or too rare to warrant focus) More commonly, Venus refers to the 2nd planet closest to the sun.