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Dear Don and List...
With regard to cette line or acetylene, didn't the young VN ride to keep
summer evening trysts with his beloved on a bicycle equipped with a
carbide lamp?
Regards,
Tom (Rymour)
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> Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 11:28:17 -0800
> From: Carolyn Kunin <chaiselongue@earthlink.net>
> Reply-To: Carolyn Kunin <chaiselongue@earthlink.net>
> Subject: Ah, cette Line
> To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum I've thought that "Ah, cette Line"
> might be
> acetylene. But why?
>
> Possible link to electric & water motifs:
>
> In 1895, Henri Moissan discovered that calcium carbide and water produced
> acetylene gas, and burning acetylene produced light. For the next ten
> years,
> acetylene producers flourished until the lower cost of electric and coal
> gas
> lighting collapsed the acetylene market.
>
> Possible links to poison/narcotic/murder motifs:
>
> ACETYLENE IS A SIMPLE ASPHYXIANT, IRRITANT, AND ANESTHETIC.
>
> AS A NARCOTIC GAS OR INTOXICANT CAUSES HYPERCAPNIA (AN
> EXCESSIVE AMOUNT OF CARBON DIOXIDE IN THE BLOOD).
>
>
> ACUTE EFFECTS: SYMPTOMS SUCH AS HEADACHES, DIZZINESS,
> SHORTNESS OF BREATH, AND LOSS OF CONSCIOUSNESS MAY OCUR IF
> THE GAS IS PRESENT IN QUANTITIES SUFFICIENT TO DILUTE THE
> OXYGEN CONCENTRATION IN AIR. SYMPTOMS OF ANOXIA(ABSENCE OF
> OXYGEN).
>
> There also seems to be a chemistry motif in Ada. There is at least one
> chemist in that family tree & I thought a few times I spotted a possible
> reference to Rimsky-Korsakov (chemist & composer) in the novel.
>
> Carolyn
>
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With regard to cette line or acetylene, didn't the young VN ride to keep
summer evening trysts with his beloved on a bicycle equipped with a
carbide lamp?
Regards,
Tom (Rymour)
>
>
> ----- Forwarded message from chaiselongue@earthlink.net -----
> Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 11:28:17 -0800
> From: Carolyn Kunin <chaiselongue@earthlink.net>
> Reply-To: Carolyn Kunin <chaiselongue@earthlink.net>
> Subject: Ah, cette Line
> To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum I've thought that "Ah, cette Line"
> might be
> acetylene. But why?
>
> Possible link to electric & water motifs:
>
> In 1895, Henri Moissan discovered that calcium carbide and water produced
> acetylene gas, and burning acetylene produced light. For the next ten
> years,
> acetylene producers flourished until the lower cost of electric and coal
> gas
> lighting collapsed the acetylene market.
>
> Possible links to poison/narcotic/murder motifs:
>
> ACETYLENE IS A SIMPLE ASPHYXIANT, IRRITANT, AND ANESTHETIC.
>
> AS A NARCOTIC GAS OR INTOXICANT CAUSES HYPERCAPNIA (AN
> EXCESSIVE AMOUNT OF CARBON DIOXIDE IN THE BLOOD).
>
>
> ACUTE EFFECTS: SYMPTOMS SUCH AS HEADACHES, DIZZINESS,
> SHORTNESS OF BREATH, AND LOSS OF CONSCIOUSNESS MAY OCUR IF
> THE GAS IS PRESENT IN QUANTITIES SUFFICIENT TO DILUTE THE
> OXYGEN CONCENTRATION IN AIR. SYMPTOMS OF ANOXIA(ABSENCE OF
> OXYGEN).
>
> There also seems to be a chemistry motif in Ada. There is at least one
> chemist in that family tree & I thought a few times I spotted a possible
> reference to Rimsky-Korsakov (chemist & composer) in the novel.
>
> Carolyn
>
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