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THOUGHTS: Standfuss or Standfast?
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or perhaps Standfast? Someone historical I think, but I haven't read the
story.
Sirin is arara avis indeed as you say. No one has yet addressed my question
of
why VN picked the sexually ambiguous bird-woman S I R I N as his pseudonym
and
mascot (not mouse-cat),
Carolyn, not Cataline, another historical personage, unloved by Cato, or
was it
another Roman senator? doesn't anybody on this list study the Classics,
meaning
Greek and Latin? I tried to teach myself, didn't get terribly far - hard to
find
a sobesednik though I did find tapes so you can hear how both languages were
pronounced in their heydays. SOS!
***
When I think of muscat (mouse cat in Nabokovian language) I think of the
sweet
wine, the muscatel, amber in a dark pink bottle. Mouse/can tell? Where is
the
cat-and-mouse game anywho? In PF I suppose.
Carolyn
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story.
Sirin is arara avis indeed as you say. No one has yet addressed my question
of
why VN picked the sexually ambiguous bird-woman S I R I N as his pseudonym
and
mascot (not mouse-cat),
Carolyn, not Cataline, another historical personage, unloved by Cato, or
was it
another Roman senator? doesn't anybody on this list study the Classics,
meaning
Greek and Latin? I tried to teach myself, didn't get terribly far - hard to
find
a sobesednik though I did find tapes so you can hear how both languages were
pronounced in their heydays. SOS!
***
When I think of muscat (mouse cat in Nabokovian language) I think of the
sweet
wine, the muscatel, amber in a dark pink bottle. Mouse/can tell? Where is
the
cat-and-mouse game anywho? In PF I suppose.
Carolyn
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