EDQUERY: For those of you with nothing better to
do, who is ADA's Yolande Kickshaw? The correct answer will
assure you immortality in a footnote. It looks like (but may not be) an
anagram.
Van jokingly suggests to Ada that should he be the first to
die, she might marry his attractive secretary Violet Knox. Ada
replies:
‘Thank
you. J’ai tâté de deux tribades dans ma vie, ça suffit. Dear Emile says
"terme qu’on évite d’employer." How right he
is!’
‘If not
Violet, then a local Gauguin girl. Or Yolande Kickshaw.’ “(V-6, p.
584).