Subject: Re: More on the solution to a raetzel (sic), i.e.
riddle
Dear Don & Brian,
> EDnote.
Very tempting, but I'd have to follow the souci d'eau motif
thru > ADA to be sure.
Actually this riddle and its solution
have less to do with VN than with BB. I was having difficulty with BB's
interpretation of deflowering of poem/not deflowering of Lucette argument and
the golden assinine intent.
And yet, there was something in the sound of
souci d'eau. When I caught it, I wondered if Brian had noticed
this as it would reinforce his argument. In fact I doubt very much that this was
intended by VN, it was just a little scherzl. Also Brian, like Fowlie,
seems to have missed the non-botanical meaning of souci d'eau which
is "fear of water."
I "cygned" myself K. Ente because the Wood Duck, in
Latin is sponsa, but in most european languages she is a "Carolina Duck."
And the poem Memoire refers to une epouse as well as to the
souci d'eau (a poisonous plant, by the way).