Pretty Mouth and Green My Eyes

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"Pretty Mouth and Green My Eyes" is a short story written by J. D. Salinger for The New Yorker, collected in his Nine Stories. It details a phone conversation between two lawyers, in which one is distracted from his own romantic evening to hear about his friend's irksome wife. It is said to be a modern retelling of the King Arthur story.

The line "rose my color is and white, pretty mouth and green my eyes" was quoted by acclaimed indie rock and lo-fi artist P.J. Harvey in her song "Angelene" from the album Is This Desire?

[edit] References

Salinger, J. D. (1953). Nine Stories. New York: Little, Brown. 

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Works by J. D. Salinger
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Short stories:
"Blue Melody" • "Both Parties Concerned" • "A Boy in France" • "De Daumier-Smith's Blue Period" • "Down at the Dinghy" • "Elaine" • "For Esmé with Love and Squalor" • "Go See Eddie" • "The Hang of It" • "Hapworth 16, 1924" • "The Heart of a Broken Story" • "I'm Crazy" • "The Inverted Forest" • "Just Before the War with the Eskimos" • "Last Day of the Last Furlough" • "The Laughing Man" • "The Long Debut of Lois Taggett" • "The Ocean Full of Bowling Balls" • "Once a Week Won't Kill You" • "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" • "Personal Notes of an Infantryman" • "Pretty Mouth and Green My Eyes" • "Slight Rebellion off Madison" • "Soft-Boiled Sergeant" • "The Stranger" • "Teddy" • "Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut" • "The Varioni Brothers" • "The Young Folks"