Content-Type: message/rfc822 Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2006 07:55:52 -0400 From: "Stan Kelly-Bootle" To: "Vladimir Nabokov Forum" Subject: Re: [NABOKV-L] Bilitis Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="=__PartECC92D58.1__=" --=__PartECC92D58.1__= Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="=__PartECC92D58.2__=" --=__PartECC92D58.2__= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Windows-1255 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 8/6/06 02:16, "NABOKV-L" wrote: > Two comments for Don and List: > =20 > A hurried perusal has not yielded the translator's name, but he should > be advised that (in l'Arbre, "The Tree" verse 3, line 3) "orteils" > means "toes," not "heels." > =20 > As for the fiftth definition of lips, have no qualms about your > imagination, Don. The meaning in question appears elsewhere in Nabokov > (e.g., The Enchanter), and elsewhere in literature. > =20 > Incidentally, I still have somewhere the score of a musical setting of > les Chansons by a very French composer whose name probably should not > escape me but does. > =20 > Best greetings, > =20 > DN >=20 > Note levres petites/grandes for =B3labia minora/majora.=B2 >=20 > Then re-orteils, there=B9s the naughty idiom avoir les doigts de pieds = en > eventail/en bouquet de violettes. > (=B3to enjoy a great orgasm=B2 lit. =B3to have one=B9s =8Ctoes=B9 spread = like a fan/a > bunch of violets.=B2) >=20 > In my Scouse dialect, =B3flat heels=B2 denote a promiscuous, non-lesbian = female. >=20 > Dmitri: Switzerland or USA for the World Cup? One never knows!! But my = euros > are on Brasil. >=20 >=20 > Stan Kelly-Bootle >=20 >=20 >=20 Search the archive: http://listserv.ucsb.edu/archives/nabokv-l.html Contact the Editors: mailto:nabokv-l@utk.edu,nabokv-l@holycross.edu Visit Zembla: http://www.libraries.psu.edu/nabokov/zembla.htm View Nabokv-L policies: http://web.utk.edu/~sblackwe/EDNote.htm Search the archive: http://listserv.ucsb.edu/archives/nabokv-l.html Contact the Editors: mailto:nabokv-l@utk.edu,nabokv-l@holycross.edu Visit Zembla: http://www.libraries.psu.edu/nabokov/zembla.htm View Nabokv-L policies: http://web.utk.edu/~sblackwe/EDNote.htm --=__PartECC92D58.2__= Content-Type: text/html; charset=Windows-1255 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: HTML Re: [NABOKV-L] Bilitis On 8/6/06 02:16, "NABOKV-L" <NABOKV-L@H= OLYCROSS.EDU> wrote:

Two comments for Don and = List:
 
A hurried perusal has not yielded the translator's name, but he should
be advised that (in l'Arbre, "The Tree" verse 3,   &nbs= p; line 3) "orteils"
means "toes," not "heels."
 
As for the fiftth definition of lips, have no qualms about your
imagination, Don. The meaning in question appears elsewhere in Nabokov
(e.g., The Enchanter), and  elsewhere in literature.
 
Incidentally, I still have somewhere the score of a musical setting of
les Chansons by a very French composer whose name probably should not
escape me but does.
 
Best greetings,
 
DN

Note levres petites/grandes for “labia minora/majora.” =  

Then re-orteils, there’s the naughty idiom avoir les doigts de = pieds en eventail/en bouquet de violettes.
(“to enjoy a great orgasm” lit. “to have one’s = ‘toes’ spread like a fan/a bunch of violets.”)

In my Scouse dialect, “flat heels” denote a promiscuous, = non-lesbian female.

Dmitri: Switzerland or USA for the World Cup? One never knows!! But my = euros are on Brasil.


Stan Kelly-Bootle

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