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Fw: Marina's hair color. ADA
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From: "marie bouchet" <mmariebouchet@hotmail.com>
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> In answer to Carolyn Kunin's question, middle-aged Marina's hair is
> described as "strawberry-blond dyed hair" (chap 38, part 1, the dinner
scene
> with Demon, Ada and Van). The image is quite powerful, but gives no hint
at
> her natural hair color!
>
> >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: Is Ada sterile? Is Marina dumb?
> >Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 11:49:58 -0700
> >
> >Is Ada sterile? Is Marina dumb?
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: Carolyn Kunin
> >To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum
> >Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2003 12:07 PM
> >Subject: Is Ada sterile? Is Marina dumb?
> >
> >
> > Dear Alexey,
> >
> > Interesting -- Marina certainly isn't acarpous biologically, though
her
> >son apparently is.
> >
> > But Ada -- there's a puzzlement. Is she sterile? There are certainly
> >some hints that she was pregnant at some point, and I have wondered (but
> >haven't gone beyond wondering) whether her relationship with Violet
isn't
> >maternal (or more likely grand-motherly). Van of course interprets her
> >affection differently.
> >
> > Marina claims that she and her brother had a rather conventional
> >relationship, preferring to discuss mundane subjects as compared to the
> >blinding, dazzling anyway, brilliance of Ada & Van's repartee. Perhaps
Aqua
> >was the brilliant one in that gemmed relationship. Their brother Ivan was
> >certainly "above average."
> >
> > On the other hand, there is the evidence of Marina's botanical diary.
I
> >might deduce that Marina's dur-nost' might be in the theatrical "dumb
> >blonde" tradition. What color is her hair anyway?
> >
> > Carolyn
>
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From: "marie bouchet" <mmariebouchet@hotmail.com>
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>
> In answer to Carolyn Kunin's question, middle-aged Marina's hair is
> described as "strawberry-blond dyed hair" (chap 38, part 1, the dinner
scene
> with Demon, Ada and Van). The image is quite powerful, but gives no hint
at
> her natural hair color!
>
> >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: Is Ada sterile? Is Marina dumb?
> >Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 11:49:58 -0700
> >
> >Is Ada sterile? Is Marina dumb?
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: Carolyn Kunin
> >To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum
> >Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2003 12:07 PM
> >Subject: Is Ada sterile? Is Marina dumb?
> >
> >
> > Dear Alexey,
> >
> > Interesting -- Marina certainly isn't acarpous biologically, though
her
> >son apparently is.
> >
> > But Ada -- there's a puzzlement. Is she sterile? There are certainly
> >some hints that she was pregnant at some point, and I have wondered (but
> >haven't gone beyond wondering) whether her relationship with Violet
isn't
> >maternal (or more likely grand-motherly). Van of course interprets her
> >affection differently.
> >
> > Marina claims that she and her brother had a rather conventional
> >relationship, preferring to discuss mundane subjects as compared to the
> >blinding, dazzling anyway, brilliance of Ada & Van's repartee. Perhaps
Aqua
> >was the brilliant one in that gemmed relationship. Their brother Ivan was
> >certainly "above average."
> >
> > On the other hand, there is the evidence of Marina's botanical diary.
I
> >might deduce that Marina's dur-nost' might be in the theatrical "dumb
> >blonde" tradition. What color is her hair anyway?
> >
> > Carolyn
>
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