Thanks for all comments -- much appreciated.

Some translations, including the first German and VN's own Russian, translate "swooners" as a 
sweater of some sort. Although Lolita lost hers in the woods, perhaps it would be excessive of 
Humbert to buy her several new ones? Excess may be the name of his particular game. But aren't the 
double o's, reminiscent of those in "bloomers," indication enough of something flimsier, something 
that would make his head turn dizzy more effectively? Or should they -- the o's so seemingly safely 
embedded in VN's neologism -- rather be read as that double frontal feature of a woman that any 
sweater would expose, be it in the winter or in the summer? If, indeed, the word is a neologism, it 
seems to me it ought to receive an equivalent creation in another tongue. The Swedish "swimmare," 
perhaps? The word replaces the double o's with double m's, but then, ours is a language that does 
not allow for double o's. The relative drawback: the word turns the buyer-cum-narrator into more of 
a pensive connaisseur ("Mm . . .") than a straightforward admirer or swooner ("Oo . . .") . . .

AFio

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