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From: jansymello

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Subject: [NABOKV-L] Fw: here it is (Vintage edition) old Lesbian...

A question lingers: Why did VN write Lesbian using a capital letter?

Presumably because Lesbian is a proper noun, meaning (originally) a person from Lesbos.

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