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Re: Query: "Dormilona" in ADA
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Dear Neil,
Did you ever get an answer to the Dormilona question? If you could
specifiy the edition and page number, your chances would be much better.
Best,
D. Barton Johnson
Department of Germanic, Slavic and Semitic Studies
Phelps Hall
University of California at Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
Phone and Fax: (805) 687-1825
Home Phone: (805) 682-4618
On Tue, 4 Feb 1997, Donald Barton Johnson wrote:
> From: Neil <ferguson@northcoast.com>
>
> This message was originally submitted by ferguson@NORTHCOAST.COM to the
> NABOKV-L list at UCSBVM.UCSB.EDU. If you simply forward it back to the list,
> using a mail command that generates "Resent-" fields (ask your local user
> support or consult the documentation of your mail program if in doubt), it will
> be distributed and the explanations you are now reading will be removed
> automatically. If on the other hand you edit the contributions you receive into
> a digest, you will have to remove this paragraph manually. Finally, you should
> be able to contact the author of this message by using the normal "reply"
> function of your mail program.
>
> ----------------- Message requiring your approval (18 lines) ------------------
> The following sentence appears about 1/3 of way into Ada.
>
> "The mind could hardly grasp the fact that this morning, at dawn, a fey
> character out of some Dormilona novel for servant maids had spoken to
> him, half-naked and shivering, in the toolroom of Ardis Hall."
>
> Was there such an author? Is this just a word created by Nabokov? Why
> is it capitalized?
>
> I enjoyed working though the allusions in Pale Fire but I just do not
> understand the word Dormilona. I would really appreciate help with
> this.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Neil
> ferguson@northcoast.com
>
>
>
Did you ever get an answer to the Dormilona question? If you could
specifiy the edition and page number, your chances would be much better.
Best,
D. Barton Johnson
Department of Germanic, Slavic and Semitic Studies
Phelps Hall
University of California at Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
Phone and Fax: (805) 687-1825
Home Phone: (805) 682-4618
On Tue, 4 Feb 1997, Donald Barton Johnson wrote:
> From: Neil <ferguson@northcoast.com>
>
> This message was originally submitted by ferguson@NORTHCOAST.COM to the
> NABOKV-L list at UCSBVM.UCSB.EDU. If you simply forward it back to the list,
> using a mail command that generates "Resent-" fields (ask your local user
> support or consult the documentation of your mail program if in doubt), it will
> be distributed and the explanations you are now reading will be removed
> automatically. If on the other hand you edit the contributions you receive into
> a digest, you will have to remove this paragraph manually. Finally, you should
> be able to contact the author of this message by using the normal "reply"
> function of your mail program.
>
> ----------------- Message requiring your approval (18 lines) ------------------
> The following sentence appears about 1/3 of way into Ada.
>
> "The mind could hardly grasp the fact that this morning, at dawn, a fey
> character out of some Dormilona novel for servant maids had spoken to
> him, half-naked and shivering, in the toolroom of Ardis Hall."
>
> Was there such an author? Is this just a word created by Nabokov? Why
> is it capitalized?
>
> I enjoyed working though the allusions in Pale Fire but I just do not
> understand the word Dormilona. I would really appreciate help with
> this.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Neil
> ferguson@northcoast.com
>
>
>