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ADA notes:" borax and "Smoke"
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revised borax and "Smoke"EDNOTE. CK continues her notes on Brian Boyd's "Annotations to ADA" in THE NABOKOVIAN #50.
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From: Carolyn Kunin
It turns out that in 1867 when Dym was published, Marina was 23 years old and presumably no longer governed by a governess. So she is probably prevaricating both in reference to borax and Smoke.
Since the hypothetical contravention might or might not have occurred when she was "Van's age" (i.e. fourteen) that would have been in 1858. Marina's governess probably attempted to ban Madame Bo-vary, whose author was brought to trial in 1857 and/or Fleurs du Mal, which brought its Bo-author legal grief in the same year. Dym is a prevaricator's smoke screen.
Carolyn
----- Original Message -----
From: Carolyn Kunin
It turns out that in 1867 when Dym was published, Marina was 23 years old and presumably no longer governed by a governess. So she is probably prevaricating both in reference to borax and Smoke.
Since the hypothetical contravention might or might not have occurred when she was "Van's age" (i.e. fourteen) that would have been in 1858. Marina's governess probably attempted to ban Madame Bo-vary, whose author was brought to trial in 1857 and/or Fleurs du Mal, which brought its Bo-author legal grief in the same year. Dym is a prevaricator's smoke screen.
Carolyn