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QUELQUES FLEURS + CHOSE + DUMAS + BELLE = QUELQUE CHOSE + LES FLEURS DU MAL + BES
Quelques Fleurs - in Ada, commercial name of Aqua's and Marina's talc powder (1.3)
Chose - Chose University, Van's alma mater (1.30)
Dumas - A. Dumas pere (1802-70) and A. Dumas fils (1824-95), French dramatists and novelists; cf. "AAA explained... to a Negro lad... that Pushkin and Dumas had African blood" (1.24)
Belle - Fr., "beautiful"; Lucette's name of her governess (1.14)
quelque chose - Fr., something
Les fleurs du mal - The Flowers of Evil, a book by Baudelaire
bes - Russ., demon; cf. Bellabestia ("Bess"), old Dan's nurse (2.10), and Russian saying sedina v borodu, bes v rebro ("one's beard is turning grey, a demon settles in one's rib")
Alexey Sklyarenko
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Quelques Fleurs - in Ada, commercial name of Aqua's and Marina's talc powder (1.3)
Chose - Chose University, Van's alma mater (1.30)
Dumas - A. Dumas pere (1802-70) and A. Dumas fils (1824-95), French dramatists and novelists; cf. "AAA explained... to a Negro lad... that Pushkin and Dumas had African blood" (1.24)
Belle - Fr., "beautiful"; Lucette's name of her governess (1.14)
quelque chose - Fr., something
Les fleurs du mal - The Flowers of Evil, a book by Baudelaire
bes - Russ., demon; cf. Bellabestia ("Bess"), old Dan's nurse (2.10), and Russian saying sedina v borodu, bes v rebro ("one's beard is turning grey, a demon settles in one's rib")
Alexey Sklyarenko
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