what does it mean?
 

. . . . . . . . . . three vermilion snakes of female face,
the smallest motion . . . . filled with grace.

It's a line from Genesis's "The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway". The song is "The Lamia".

It's a reference to a body of work done by Keats.

http://thevillage.2y.net:6/~six/Literature/lambexp.txt

You are THE man Peetster! Just what I needed . . I downloaded and saved your link! Damn Lamia wont leave my head!

And a quote from that textfile link you gave me . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .



<<The secret to understanding in The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway lies in
an understanding of the concept of existentialism. A philosophic and literary movement which, in its current form, began in the nineteenth century, I believe. Its basic tenets are this: First, life is
totally absurd. The "reality" which people accept is false, merely an invention of convenience so that we are all communicating on the same wavelength, so to speak. This also ties in the idea that life itself is utterly meaningless. Second is the idea that we, as individuals, are capable of constructing our own reality, which is just as valid and "real" as the reality of everyone else. Shakespeare touched on this when he wrote in Hamlet something to the effect of "There is no good or bad, merely thinking makes it so" and "I could live a nutshell and count myself King of infinite space".>>