Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0008257, Tue, 29 Jul 2003 09:28:33 -0700

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Fw: More on Golden Paste
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From: "Phillip Iannarelli" <iann88us@yahoo.com>
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> Yes, I remember eating the paste. When you used it
> you'd get some excess on your fingers and it would
> harden into a second skin which you would lick off
> like scales.Also the rubber tip reminded me of a
> sensuous flexible nipple.
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> Phil Iannarelli
> --- "D. Barton Johnson" <chtodel@cox.net> wrote:
> > EDNOTE. "How fully I fdelt nature glued to me /
> > And how my childish palate loved the taste /
> > Half-fish, half-honey of that golden paste! / My
> > picture book was at an early age. Can anyone recall
> > the taste of mucilage?
> >
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> > I believe the golden paste is simply the glue that
> > was called mucilage that
> > used to be common in school rooms and used by kids
> > at home through most of
> > this century and probably the last for pasting
> > together their art junk.
> >
> > It came in a bottle with a reddish rubber sort of a
> > nipple that you rubbed
> > on whatever surface you were going to stick
> > something to, say, a photo
> > snipped from Life magazine into a scrap book.
> >
> > I would bet almost every kid who used this stuff
> > tasted it at some time.
> >
> >
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