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Sent: Sunday, November 07, 2004 12:02 PM
Subject: Kingcup
Dear Don
I did a lot of research on "marygold" but the best
source was actually my grandchildren´s book of " Flower Fairies" ( trust a
British lady to know her way in Botany!) where I not only discovered the
marigold and the buttercup fairy, but the Kingcup fairy. The latter
is a synonim of "marsh marygold" and I now wonder why Nabokov didn´t use this
simpler option instead of those "maybubbles" or "maryblooms" ( beside his
intention of pointing to Boyd´s idea on Joyce and Bloom ...)
I´ve collected a few informations on this
traditional Kingcup but I´ll not mail them and risk cluttering your email.
You can easily google it and reach them if you only type in "
Kingcup"...
I hope my messages are coming through? This here
I´ll mail to the VN-List too, just to ascertain that you get it and to enable
you to inform me if the other messages have arrived ( I mailed them yesterday
).
Best,
Jansy