Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0010522, Thu, 4 Nov 2004 09:06:07 -0800

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Re: Fwd: Re: TT-20 Anatomy lesson
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Hello, Sandy
Several messages ago ( months ago, too ) I described a movie where the
character is particularly attracted to this "jugular notch" in his beloved
and roams about his room asking a friend for this designation and the friend
answered him... but I forgot the name and have no time to see the DVD again
( perhaps if I read the book ?). I´m referring to " The English Patient" (
M.Ondaatje ).

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From: "Donald B. Johnson" <chtodel@gss.ucsb.edu>
To: <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2004 12:42 PM
Subject: Fwd: Re: TT-20 Anatomy lesson


For what it's worth:
The triangular depression on the front of the neck, below the lower
portion of the Adam's apple [cricoid cartelage] and the lateral
sternocleidomastoid muscles is called the jugular notch.
[The depression below the protuberance on the back of the skull -
The Inion - is formed by the thin tendonous attachment of the trapezius
muscles.
What's his name when he's at home? Other than the vernacular "going
for the jugular" - which probably refers to the vulnerable windpipe at
this spot - I think they await an artistic nomenclature.
-Sandy

> Don has also discussed with the list the triangular identation in
> Ada´s
> neck ( with various comments concerning what is known as "Adam´s
> apple" in
> men, with attempts to find the specific name for this part of her
> anatomy ).
> Van often referred to a special "V" shaped parting of Ada´s hair both
> on
> neck and back.
> Jansy
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Donald B. Johnson" <chtodel@gss.ucsb.edu>
> To: <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 2004 1:35 PM
> Subject: TT-20
>
>
>> 81.01-02: a medievalish, sort of Flemish, long-necked shopgirl:
>> Flemish
>> paintings are from ADA? Cf. "as if by a Flemish master's hand" (Ch.
>> 15).
>>
>> ------------------------------------------
>> EDCOMMENT. lONG-NECKED WOMAN ARE CHARACTERISTIC OF THE WORK OF SOME
> FLEMISH
>> PAINTERS. AND, OF COURSE, WE HAD A SHOPGIRL EARLY ON. tHE CENTRAL
>> POINT
> HERE
>> IS, I THINK, THE NECK MOTIF--ESPECIALLY SINCE IT OCCURS IN THE
> STRANGULATION
>> CHAPTER.
>>
>>
>
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