Subject: Fwd: Ada´s neck
From: "Sandy Klein" <[email-masked]>
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Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 16:29:18 -0400

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From: Vladimir Nabokov Forum [mailto:[email-masked]] On Behalf Of Donald B. Johnson
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Subject: Fwd: Ada´s neck

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    Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 11:53:00 -0300
    From: Jansy Berndt de Souza Mello <[email-masked]>
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 Subject: Ada´s neck
      To: "Donald B. Johnson" <[email-masked]>

Dear List,

Someone asked how the triangular depression in a woman´s neck ( Ada´s ) was named. In his book "The English Patient" Ondaatje wrote:
 " He pointed his thick finger to the spot by his Adam´s apple and said, 'This is called the vascular sinozood'."

Since VN always referrred to various images and ideas in a condensed way ( "overdetermination" was the word used by Freud when this occurred during
dream-work) I realized that the absence of a protuberating "Adam´s apple" ( The garden of Eden in Ardis,etc) in Ada could also be significant.
Jansy

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