Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0009089, Sun, 4 Jan 2004 20:58:48 -0800

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Fw: Fw: Lolita Browning query
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From: "Dane Gill" <pennyparkerpark@hotmail.com>
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> I've also always understood it as "frontal cleft".
> Dane
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> >From: "D. Barton Johnson" <chtodel@cox.net>
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> >To: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
> >Subject: Fw: Lolita Browning query
> >Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2004 19:32:08 -0800
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> >From: "Brian Howell" <pakmshlter@yahoo.com>
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> > > On page 117 of the Annotated Lolita, there is an image
> > > I'd appreciate clarification on.
> > >
> > > HH says that Lolita 'tweaked loose the frock-fold that
> > > had stuck in the peach-cleft', referring to Browning's
> > > poem. I've read the Browning in the notes but am not
> > > much wiser. I can't help reading 'frock-fold' as a
> > > pleat of her dress and 'peach-cleft' as her buttocks,
> > > but what is the literal image if it isn't this? Or is
> > > there something in the context I am missing? There is
> > > obviously a sexual connotation, but if anyone has any
> > > idea I am not sure as to the literal meaning I'd be
> > > grateful.
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> >EDnOTE. I don't think it would be straining credulity to assume HH had
the
> >frontal cleft in view.
> > >
> > > Brian
> > >
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