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Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 14:44:04 EST
From: STADLEN@aol.com
In a message dated 17/02/2005 16:38:55 GMT Standard Time,
chtodel@gss.ucsb.edu writes:
> VN knew "Here we go round the mulberry bush," which he echoes weirdly and
> wonderfully in Lolita II.26: " 'going round and round,' as she [Rita]
> phrased
> it, 'like a God-damn mulberry moth'" although he glosses it in Appel's note
> as
> "the maypole song" and not a morning bathtime song-which is new to me too,
> and
> is not in the Opies' Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes, but may have been
> current a long time nevertheless.
>
>
>
> Brian Boyd
>
I certainly learned it inter alia as a morning or evening bathtime song in
England in the first half of the 1940s.
Anthony Stadlen
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