Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0018899, Wed, 2 Dec 2009 08:50:05 -0800

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I think the word may have been "gobbets."
Carolyn

On Dec 1, 2009, at 9:28 AM, Hafid Bouazza wrote:

Hello Siri Vane,

As far as concerns 'goblet', it might be a diminuitive of gob: 'a
lump, clot of some slimy substance' (OED). Something, perhaps, like
pear-shaped droplets(!) of light? I admit I don't know where it
appears in Ada.

And for 'fawnlet': a fawn is a young deer in the first year. But I
think you mean 'faunlet', which Nabokov uses in Pale Fire as an
masculine equivalent for 'nymphet': a young attractive boy.

Hafid Bouazza

2009/11/30 Siri Vane <neptunes_only_daughter@hotmail.com>
Hello List,
Currently reading a seminal work about the history of Iraq, the
authors' surname "Sluglett" triggered in me a memory of many
diminuitive "-lets" in V.N.'s novels and I decided for myself that
maybe "sluglet" was a word only waiting to be discovered and put to
use by V.N.
The only "-lets" I remembered were "wavelet" and "goblet", and I was
further reminded of "fawnlet" (what might that mean?) as well as
"radugalet" and "motor laundalet" (meaning?).
I remembered "goblet" to mean "little gob" (mouth?), but apparently it
appears in Ada as "goblets of light". I'd be happy if someone could
clear up what that is supposed to mean. Otherwise I wanted to ask the
list to remind me

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