Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0009559, Sat, 3 Apr 2004 09:18:36 -0800

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Fw: Fw: Maurice Couturier re Plagiarism & LOLITA
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From: <tom@discobolus.co.za>
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> Dear Don and List...
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> The Great Plagiarism Haroosh is such a waste of breath and ink, IMHO.
> Changing the focus back to Humbert's tangle of thorns, perhaps some of us
> know why he, as a Francophone, did not come up with "nymphette." Instead
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> spells it the American way, on the model of "cigaret," which gives a
> curiously masculine effect at first sight.
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> Regards,
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> Tom (Rymour)
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EDNOTE. I couldn't agree more your HO, but what (and whence) is a HAROOSH?