Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0009155, Tue, 13 Jan 2004 20:02:13 -0800

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Scatology in ADA
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Subject: Re: Fw: Fw: Fw: creepy thoughts on ADA


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> Dane,
> The section in the Gift is in the first chapter and it describes the
> childhood of the boy.
> This longish paragraph follows a rhyme about "miniature music" with "funny
> pronunciation".
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> More things on green apples case: there's an explanation inside Ada, in
the
> 3-d part, chapter 8: <The same garbling - and this gave Van a clue to
> Yuzlik's source of recondite information - occurred in The Chimes of Chose
> (a memoir by a former chum of Van's, now lord Chose, which had climbed,
and
> still clung to, the best seller trellis - mainly because of several
indecent
> but very funny references to the Villa Venus in Ranton Brooks)... Jack
> Chose's book is certainly most entertaining - especially that bit about
> apples and diarrhea, and the excerpts from the Venus Shell Album... but
the
> rascal should have neither divulged my name nor botched my thespionym>(pp
> 403-404)
> It's obvious that here VN as usually mocks over best-selling memoirs and
the
> reasons of their popularity. The interested ones can try to look for
> intertextual allusions in this section.
>
> Sincerely, JS.
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