Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0009297, Mon, 9 Feb 2004 11:07:40 -0800

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Fw: Fw: query about 'clathrate skirt' in Lolita (Appel)
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From: "Dane Gill" <pennyparkerpark@hotmail.com>
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> There are very few odd words Appel lets go by, but I do agree that
> expalining this word would be useful (but so is a dictionary). Here's what
> webster says:
> "relating to or being a compound formed by the inclusion of molecules of
one
> kind in cavities of the crystal lattice of another"
> Dane
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> >From: "D. Barton Johnson" <chtodel@cox.net>
> >Reply-To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
> >To: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
> >Subject: Fw: query about 'clathrate skirt' in Lolita (Appel)
> >Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2004 09:55:05 -0800
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> >From: "Brian Howell" <pakmshlter@yahoo.com>
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> > > On p. 138, Annotated Lolita, HH says that Lolita tries
> > > on a 'swirly clathrate skirt'. I understand this to
> > > mean having a net-like pattern. I'm curious to know if
> > > N meant by this word a synonym for 'tartan' or
> > > 'checked'.
> > >
> > > Btw, as good as _The Annotated Lolita_ is, I do find
> > > it odd how Appel lets obscure words like this go, and
> > > yet he translates simple French phrases whose meaning
> > > a lot of people who can't even speak French either
> > > know or can more or less guess correctly.
> > >
> > > Brian
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