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From: Jansy Berndt de Souza Mello
To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum
Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2004 3:58 AM
Subject: Re: Fw: Kant - cucumicolor ?
Just like Lucette´s "angry green" to fill in the hole left by a missing key ( classic symbolism).
Could "Kant" also be employed to bring up an accoustical association with hole, beside his philosophical empty "categories" and would the choice of "cucumicolor" have any relation to the word for ass-hole in Portuguese ( cu ) ?
I remember following such a discussion in the List.
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From: D. Barton Johnson
To: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2004 12:49 AM
Subject: Fw: Kant - cucumicolor ?
EDRESPONSE. Cucumicolor = green, like a cucumber. Kant had green eyes.
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From: George Shimanovich
To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum
Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 7:18 PM
Subject: Re: Kant - cucumicolor ?
Well, I know what kind of philosopher Kant is but what kind of color is cucumicolor ?
That is one of those words whose sound I invariably enjoy on first reading without even attempting to comprehend the meaning. Now that I tried it my dictionary search produced nothing. Is that an invented word?
- George
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From: D. Barton Johnson
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Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 8:28 PM
Subject: Kant
'- because at the other end, at the heel end of the Vaniada divan - remember? - there was only the closet in which you two locked me up at least ten times.'
'Nu uzh i desyat' (exaggeration). Once - and never more. It had a keyless hole as big as Kant's eye. Kant was famous for his cucumicolor iris.'