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Don't bother posting this if someone else has already answered it,
but the King, hearing a name that was more often given to boys than
to girls, "expected to see emerge from the loft a bare-kneed mountain
lad like a tawny angel. Instead there appeared a disheveled young
hussy wearing only a man's shirt that came down to her pink shins
and an oversized pair of brogues." [note to line 149] Of course
Kinbote mentions or implies exposed male skin on other occasions,
but I don't remember any "bare-shouldered" boys.
--- "Donald B. Johnson" <chtodel@gss.ucsb.edu> wrote:
>
> EDNOTE. Whatever else VN may have had in mind, "Peter de Rast"
> is certainly a play on "pederast". I seem to recall a "bare-shouldered"
> lad
> that King Kinbote encounters on his escape from Nova Zembla,
...
Jerry Friedman
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but the King, hearing a name that was more often given to boys than
to girls, "expected to see emerge from the loft a bare-kneed mountain
lad like a tawny angel. Instead there appeared a disheveled young
hussy wearing only a man's shirt that came down to her pink shins
and an oversized pair of brogues." [note to line 149] Of course
Kinbote mentions or implies exposed male skin on other occasions,
but I don't remember any "bare-shouldered" boys.
--- "Donald B. Johnson" <chtodel@gss.ucsb.edu> wrote:
>
> EDNOTE. Whatever else VN may have had in mind, "Peter de Rast"
> is certainly a play on "pederast". I seem to recall a "bare-shouldered"
> lad
> that King Kinbote encounters on his escape from Nova Zembla,
...
Jerry Friedman
----- End forwarded message -----