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Dear Jansy and others on this silkworm thread,
The Spanish for mulberry is "moral," which would certainly make it a good Tree
of Knowledge (of the Knowledge of Good and Evil)!!! Interesting that "moral" in
one language becomes "amora" in its neighbor, from the prim to the illicitness
of an almost amoral amour.
Brian Boyd
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From: Vladimir Nabokov Forum on behalf of D. Barton Johnson
Sent: Thu 2/24/2005 6:17 AM
To: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
Subject: Fw: mulberry/ amora
----- Original Message -----
From: Jansy Berndt de Souza Mello <mailto:jansy@aetern.us>
To: don barton johnson <mailto:chtodel@cox.net>
Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 8:39 AM
Subject: mulberry/ amora
It never occurred to me to look up "mulberry" in an English/Portuguese
dictionary but I always knew that silk-worms need the "amoreira tree" to
develop. Like it is foreshadowed in the "first shattal tree" by Van´s
silk-threads covering his mouth after kissing Ada.
Mulberry in Portuguese is "amora" ( a lovely word, i.e, a word that is
"amoravel" - and it could share the palyndrome about being enamoured with
Rome: "amor a Roma" ).
I don´t have a dictionary to find the word in Spanish, though, with which VN
would certainly be more familiar where we could find a new extension into the
"love" direction.
My husband mocked me today because while I discussed this idea of Boyd´s that
Lucette should be considered as " a young martyr" ( because she comes
associated with krestiks, signets and the Christian crucifixion images ) I
suggested that the "cross" might simply be a kind of "shifter" to announce a
"cross-word puzzle" or an "acrostic" and not be an indicator of an actual
"suffering at the cross".
He concluded that I was creating a new breed of "crossberries" ...
Jansy
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HMM...there might be a whole net of motifs of which mulberry is a part.
Something like the elaborate daisy chain in Speak Memory with rainbows, jewels,
colored glass, etc which is decoded in the Index. In my Mulberry browsing I note
that in times past, the Chinese used silkworm feces as a medical treatment for
vomiting.
----- End forwarded message -----
The Spanish for mulberry is "moral," which would certainly make it a good Tree
of Knowledge (of the Knowledge of Good and Evil)!!! Interesting that "moral" in
one language becomes "amora" in its neighbor, from the prim to the illicitness
of an almost amoral amour.
Brian Boyd
________________________________
From: Vladimir Nabokov Forum on behalf of D. Barton Johnson
Sent: Thu 2/24/2005 6:17 AM
To: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
Subject: Fw: mulberry/ amora
----- Original Message -----
From: Jansy Berndt de Souza Mello <mailto:jansy@aetern.us>
To: don barton johnson <mailto:chtodel@cox.net>
Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 8:39 AM
Subject: mulberry/ amora
It never occurred to me to look up "mulberry" in an English/Portuguese
dictionary but I always knew that silk-worms need the "amoreira tree" to
develop. Like it is foreshadowed in the "first shattal tree" by Van´s
silk-threads covering his mouth after kissing Ada.
Mulberry in Portuguese is "amora" ( a lovely word, i.e, a word that is
"amoravel" - and it could share the palyndrome about being enamoured with
Rome: "amor a Roma" ).
I don´t have a dictionary to find the word in Spanish, though, with which VN
would certainly be more familiar where we could find a new extension into the
"love" direction.
My husband mocked me today because while I discussed this idea of Boyd´s that
Lucette should be considered as " a young martyr" ( because she comes
associated with krestiks, signets and the Christian crucifixion images ) I
suggested that the "cross" might simply be a kind of "shifter" to announce a
"cross-word puzzle" or an "acrostic" and not be an indicator of an actual
"suffering at the cross".
He concluded that I was creating a new breed of "crossberries" ...
Jansy
----------------------------------------------------------
HMM...there might be a whole net of motifs of which mulberry is a part.
Something like the elaborate daisy chain in Speak Memory with rainbows, jewels,
colored glass, etc which is decoded in the Index. In my Mulberry browsing I note
that in times past, the Chinese used silkworm feces as a medical treatment for
vomiting.
----- End forwarded message -----