Subject: Re: [NABOKV-L] Bilitis
From: "Stan Kelly-Bootle" <[email-masked]>
To: "Vladimir Nabokov Forum" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2006 07:55:52 -0400

On 8/6/06 02:16, "NABOKV-L" <[email-masked]> wrote:

> Two comments for Don and List:
>  
> A hurried perusal has not yielded the translator's name, but he should
> be advised that (in l'Arbre, "The Tree" verse 3,     line 3) "orteils"
> means "toes," not "heels."
>  
> As for the fiftth definition of lips, have no qualms about your
> imagination, Don. The meaning in question appears elsewhere in Nabokov
> (e.g., The Enchanter), and  elsewhere in literature.
>  
> Incidentally, I still have somewhere the score of a musical setting of
> les Chansons by a very French composer whose name probably should not
> escape me but does.
>  
> Best greetings,
>  
> DN
> 
> Note levres petites/grandes for ³labia minora/majora.²
> 
> Then re-orteils, there¹s the naughty idiom avoir les doigts de pieds en
> eventail/en bouquet de violettes.
> (³to enjoy a great orgasm² lit. ³to have one¹s �toes¹ spread like a fan/a
> bunch of violets.²)
> 
> In my Scouse dialect, ³flat heels² denote a promiscuous, non-lesbian female.
> 
> Dmitri: Switzerland or USA for the World Cup? One never knows!! But my euros
> are on Brasil.
> 
> 
> Stan Kelly-Bootle
> 
> 
> 

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