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Fw: Fw: query about 'clathrate skirt' in Lolita (Appel)
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From: "Dane Gill" <pennyparkerpark@hotmail.com>
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> There are very few odd words Appel lets go by, but I do agree that
> expalining this word would be useful (but so is a dictionary). Here's what
> webster says:
> "relating to or being a compound formed by the inclusion of molecules of
one
> kind in cavities of the crystal lattice of another"
> Dane
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> >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: query about 'clathrate skirt' in Lolita (Appel)
> >Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2004 09:55:05 -0800
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> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Brian Howell" <pakmshlter@yahoo.com>
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> > > On p. 138, Annotated Lolita, HH says that Lolita tries
> > > on a 'swirly clathrate skirt'. I understand this to
> > > mean having a net-like pattern. I'm curious to know if
> > > N meant by this word a synonym for 'tartan' or
> > > 'checked'.
> > >
> > > Btw, as good as _The Annotated Lolita_ is, I do find
> > > it odd how Appel lets obscure words like this go, and
> > > yet he translates simple French phrases whose meaning
> > > a lot of people who can't even speak French either
> > > know or can more or less guess correctly.
> > >
> > > Brian
> > >
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From: "Dane Gill" <pennyparkerpark@hotmail.com>
>
> ----------------- Message requiring your approval (47
lines) ------------------
> There are very few odd words Appel lets go by, but I do agree that
> expalining this word would be useful (but so is a dictionary). Here's what
> webster says:
> "relating to or being a compound formed by the inclusion of molecules of
one
> kind in cavities of the crystal lattice of another"
> 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: query about 'clathrate skirt' in Lolita (Appel)
> >Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2004 09:55:05 -0800
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Brian Howell" <pakmshlter@yahoo.com>
> > >
> > > ----------------- Message requiring your approval (22
> >lines) ------------------
> > > On p. 138, Annotated Lolita, HH says that Lolita tries
> > > on a 'swirly clathrate skirt'. I understand this to
> > > mean having a net-like pattern. I'm curious to know if
> > > N meant by this word a synonym for 'tartan' or
> > > 'checked'.
> > >
> > > Btw, as good as _The Annotated Lolita_ is, I do find
> > > it odd how Appel lets obscure words like this go, and
> > > yet he translates simple French phrases whose meaning
> > > a lot of people who can't even speak French either
> > > know or can more or less guess correctly.
> > >
> > > Brian
> > >
> > > =====
> > > http://www.elasticpress.com/sound_of_white_ants.htm
> > > http://www.tobypress.com/books/dance_geometry.htm
> > >
> > > __________________________________
> > > Do you Yahoo!?
> > > New Yahoo! Photos - easier uploading and sharing.
> > > http://photos.yahoo.com/
>
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