Dear Eds and List
E. Naiman wrote:
" I think Nabokov's point here is that oral sex is all about language,
especially when one only has words to play with. This is a wonderful
passage because instead of baring the body, Nabokov bares the
device...."
EN also mentioned that: "The theme of wind,
breath, inspiration that runs through much of his work (Windmuller in
Lolita, veter-iniarians in Despair inter alia as Sergei Davydov has
pointed out). Souffler is part of that motif."
I wish he could develop this "wind, breath,
inspiration" - and one must add "psyché, soul, butterfly" theme, since
Eros and Psyché having been kissing on here at the list ...
After a period of messages concerning Lesbian
love and Bilitis ( in "Ada"), we had this surge of phallic-
teat images with the distinction as shown by Peter Dale: " Etymologically, it was the difference between
'giving a teat'(ruma) and 'sucking on a teat' (fello)". Would all the
variants of "rabbit" cunicular names also suggest the loves bt. Ada
and Lucette?
Jansy Mello
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