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JM: it's not the first time that Nabokov mentions a "coeur de boeuf," is it? ( in Pale Fire?)
Harfar Baron of Shalksbore was nicknamed Curdy Buff by his admirers (Kinbote's note to Lines 433-434).
JM's "Scrotom" should be scrotum. Btw., scrotum shares its first three letters with Screepatch, the newly elected president of the United Americas (3.4). Mr. Alexander Screepatch is a namesake (in fact, he may be the same person) of Sashka skripach (Sashka the fiddler), the hero of Kuprin's story Gambrinus, and Mandelshtam's Aleksandr Gertsovich, a Jewish musician. But one also remembers Pushkin's poem "K kastratu raz prishyol skrypach..." ("A fiddler came once to a eunuch..." 1835), in which bezmudyi (vulg., castrated) rhymes with izumrudy (emeralds).
I notice that Armenian was misspelled in my previous message.
Alexey Sklyarenko
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Harfar Baron of Shalksbore was nicknamed Curdy Buff by his admirers (Kinbote's note to Lines 433-434).
JM's "Scrotom" should be scrotum. Btw., scrotum shares its first three letters with Screepatch, the newly elected president of the United Americas (3.4). Mr. Alexander Screepatch is a namesake (in fact, he may be the same person) of Sashka skripach (Sashka the fiddler), the hero of Kuprin's story Gambrinus, and Mandelshtam's Aleksandr Gertsovich, a Jewish musician. But one also remembers Pushkin's poem "K kastratu raz prishyol skrypach..." ("A fiddler came once to a eunuch..." 1835), in which bezmudyi (vulg., castrated) rhymes with izumrudy (emeralds).
I notice that Armenian was misspelled in my previous message.
Alexey Sklyarenko
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