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EDRESPONSE. Cucumicolor = green, like a cucumber. Kant had green eyes.
----- Original Message -----
From: George Shimanovich
To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum
Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 7:18 PM
Subject: Re: Kant - cucumicolor ?
Well, I know what kind of philosopher Kant is but what kind of color is cucumicolor ?
That is one of those words whose sound I invariably enjoy on first reading without even attempting to comprehend the meaning. Now that I tried it my dictionary search produced nothing. Is that an invented word?
- George
----- Original Message -----
From: D. Barton Johnson
To: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 8:28 PM
Subject: Kant
'- because at the other end, at the heel end of the Vaniada divan - remember? - there was only the closet in which you two locked me up at least ten times.'
'Nu uzh i desyat' (exaggeration). Once - and never more. It had a keyless hole as big as Kant's eye. Kant was famous for his cucumicolor iris.'
----- Original Message -----
From: George Shimanovich
To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum
Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 7:18 PM
Subject: Re: Kant - cucumicolor ?
Well, I know what kind of philosopher Kant is but what kind of color is cucumicolor ?
That is one of those words whose sound I invariably enjoy on first reading without even attempting to comprehend the meaning. Now that I tried it my dictionary search produced nothing. Is that an invented word?
- George
----- Original Message -----
From: D. Barton Johnson
To: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 8:28 PM
Subject: Kant
'- because at the other end, at the heel end of the Vaniada divan - remember? - there was only the closet in which you two locked me up at least ten times.'
'Nu uzh i desyat' (exaggeration). Once - and never more. It had a keyless hole as big as Kant's eye. Kant was famous for his cucumicolor iris.'