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Subject:	RE: [NABOKV-L] [NABOBOV-L] Flaubert's? Lincoln's? Returning to the Newport Frill
Date:	Sun, 11 Jul 2010 09:15:36 +1200
From:	b.boyd@auckland.ac.nz <b.boyd@auckland.ac.nz>
To:	Vladimir Nabokov Forum <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
References:	<002101cb2045$86b54510$6900a8c0@jansy27b99b1ba>

Lovely linking, Jansy. "Newport Frill" comes only six lines after "Marat" and forms part of one continuous flow of the shaving theme. The next line, "My Adam's apple is a prickly pear," now conjures up in my mind Lincoln's singularly prominent Adam's apple. Nabokov's mistake "Newport" for "Newgate" may have been prompted by thinking of the US president, and substituting the US's well-known Newport for the very British Newgate.

Brian Boyd

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