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THOUGHTS: Nitsa - Bol'nitsa in Pale Fire
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from Alexey Sklyarenko (who is not sure if his idle thoughts are relevant):
Disa's Villa Paradisa is near Nice (see Kinbote's note to ll. 433-434). Its Russian name, Ницца (pronounced Nitsa), rhymes with a number of words, one of them being bol'nitsa ("hospital"; the Ницца-больница rhyme occurs, for instance, in Mayakovsky's poem about his unhappy Odessa love Облако в штанах, "The Trousered Cloud"). Bol'nitsa comes from bol'noy (adj., "ill", "sick"; noun, "patient"), but also has bol' ("pain"; "ache") in it. Kinbote's wife Disa is Duches of Payn, of Great Payn and Moan (герцогиня Больстонская, из великой Боли и Стона in Vera Nabokov's translation; note that "Больстон" is not too far from the American Boston).
Note that, according to Carolyn Kunin's theory, Shade is not murdered but hospitalized.
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Disa's Villa Paradisa is near Nice (see Kinbote's note to ll. 433-434). Its Russian name, Ницца (pronounced Nitsa), rhymes with a number of words, one of them being bol'nitsa ("hospital"; the Ницца-больница rhyme occurs, for instance, in Mayakovsky's poem about his unhappy Odessa love Облако в штанах, "The Trousered Cloud"). Bol'nitsa comes from bol'noy (adj., "ill", "sick"; noun, "patient"), but also has bol' ("pain"; "ache") in it. Kinbote's wife Disa is Duches of Payn, of Great Payn and Moan (герцогиня Больстонская, из великой Боли и Стона in Vera Nabokov's translation; note that "Больстон" is not too far from the American Boston).
Note that, according to Carolyn Kunin's theory, Shade is not murdered but hospitalized.
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