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From: "Dane Gill" <pennyparkerpark@hotmail.com>
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> I've also always understood it as "frontal cleft".
> Dane
>
>
> >From: "D. Barton Johnson" <chtodel@cox.net>
> >Reply-To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
> >To: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
> >Subject: Fw: Lolita Browning query
> >Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2004 19:32:08 -0800
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Brian Howell" <pakmshlter@yahoo.com>
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> > > On page 117 of the Annotated Lolita, there is an image
> > > I'd appreciate clarification on.
> > >
> > > HH says that Lolita 'tweaked loose the frock-fold that
> > > had stuck in the peach-cleft', referring to Browning's
> > > poem. I've read the Browning in the notes but am not
> > > much wiser. I can't help reading 'frock-fold' as a
> > > pleat of her dress and 'peach-cleft' as her buttocks,
> > > but what is the literal image if it isn't this? Or is
> > > there something in the context I am missing? There is
> > > obviously a sexual connotation, but if anyone has any
> > > idea I am not sure as to the literal meaning I'd be
> > > grateful.
> >-----------------------
> >EDnOTE. I don't think it would be straining credulity to assume HH had
the
> >frontal cleft in view.
> > >
> > > Brian
> > >
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From: "Dane Gill" <pennyparkerpark@hotmail.com>
To: <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
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> I've also always understood it as "frontal cleft".
> Dane
>
>
> >From: "D. Barton Johnson" <chtodel@cox.net>
> >Reply-To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
> >To: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
> >Subject: Fw: Lolita Browning query
> >Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2004 19:32:08 -0800
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Brian Howell" <pakmshlter@yahoo.com>
> > > ----------------- Message requiring your approval (20
> >lines) ------------------
> > > On page 117 of the Annotated Lolita, there is an image
> > > I'd appreciate clarification on.
> > >
> > > HH says that Lolita 'tweaked loose the frock-fold that
> > > had stuck in the peach-cleft', referring to Browning's
> > > poem. I've read the Browning in the notes but am not
> > > much wiser. I can't help reading 'frock-fold' as a
> > > pleat of her dress and 'peach-cleft' as her buttocks,
> > > but what is the literal image if it isn't this? Or is
> > > there something in the context I am missing? There is
> > > obviously a sexual connotation, but if anyone has any
> > > idea I am not sure as to the literal meaning I'd be
> > > grateful.
> >-----------------------
> >EDnOTE. I don't think it would be straining credulity to assume HH had
the
> >frontal cleft in view.
> > >
> > > Brian
> > >
> > > __________________________________
> > > Do you Yahoo!?
> > > New Yahoo! Photos - easier uploading and sharing.
> > > http://photos.yahoo.com/
>
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