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Luzhin's gralitsa vs granitsa (fwd)
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May be we should explain that GRALITSA tenderly comes from "igrat'" - "to
play"; a sparkling play of a moonlight on water. In the same way Russian
"pryalitsa" (distaff) origins from "pryast'" - to spin.
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D`r`: 3 tebp`k 1999 c. 21:36
Rel`: Luzhin's gralitsa vs granitsa
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>The word is, of course, gralitsa (stress on the first "a") "granitsa" is
>a silly mistake made by illiterary pirates who bring forth tons of Nabokov
>editions in the Territory. It means a pillar of sunlight or moonlight
>reflected on the surface of a sea, especially the White Sea. The term is
>northern Russian, and Nabokov lifted it from Dal' unrivaled lexicon, 3rd
>edition, which VN had on his desk while composing Luzhin's Defence (see the
>photograph of February 27, 1929, in Speak Memory).
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