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Re: [NABOKV-L] [NABOKJOV-L} several issues( paidos, pedos) and fiction.Andrea Pitzer commented on a line from the NYT Book Review [ "Only this Humbert is a woman and her nymphet is a fawn named Felix..."] in which she spotted the word "fawn" where one should expect to read "faun".
Stan K-Bootle noted that "Even if we could go back in time and "nail" the very first usage and context, we cannot be sure of the user's reasons. Mistakes are made! That's why we have "nickname" and a creature called the "newt." (OE: An ickname; an ewt - both misheard and re-spelled.)". His warning [ "Remember, every word starts life as a "neologism." "] encouraged me to reconsider the neologistical role of the biblical Adam (did he also coin verbs and adjectives?) and, who knows, the importance of such characters as Sheridan's Mrs. Malaprop.
Stan wrote about the "persistence of the spelling "paedophilia/paedophile" in British English seems to validate the Greek root, leading to the surface (literal) meaning of "love of children." Yet, clearly, past and current usage has expanded (plumetted!) to mean "disgusting obsession with children below a certain age [of legal consent]." and I eagerly await a similar clarification concerning "pederasty". He included today's front page Times information about Roger Took. Just yesterday I read about the arrest of a paedophile in Poland who, like that other Austrian guy, kidnapped his young daughter, held her in captivity for over five years and grand-sired a brood similar to Humbert's most disgusting and monstruous fantasies.We shouldn't also forget those incestuously inbreeding "religious" sects in America which made the news a few months ago and what these occurrences reveal about the thin veneer of our present civilization which, at least until now, seems to be even more primitive than those mythical adventures from a Bronze age Oedipous.
The simple fact that VN's "Lolita" invites us to constantly debate issues related to what, shockingly, turns out to happen in reality all over the world, illustrates the social importance of art - independently of the artist's original motivation. .
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Stan K-Bootle noted that "Even if we could go back in time and "nail" the very first usage and context, we cannot be sure of the user's reasons. Mistakes are made! That's why we have "nickname" and a creature called the "newt." (OE: An ickname; an ewt - both misheard and re-spelled.)". His warning [ "Remember, every word starts life as a "neologism." "] encouraged me to reconsider the neologistical role of the biblical Adam (did he also coin verbs and adjectives?) and, who knows, the importance of such characters as Sheridan's Mrs. Malaprop.
Stan wrote about the "persistence of the spelling "paedophilia/paedophile" in British English seems to validate the Greek root, leading to the surface (literal) meaning of "love of children." Yet, clearly, past and current usage has expanded (plumetted!) to mean "disgusting obsession with children below a certain age [of legal consent]." and I eagerly await a similar clarification concerning "pederasty". He included today's front page Times information about Roger Took. Just yesterday I read about the arrest of a paedophile in Poland who, like that other Austrian guy, kidnapped his young daughter, held her in captivity for over five years and grand-sired a brood similar to Humbert's most disgusting and monstruous fantasies.We shouldn't also forget those incestuously inbreeding "religious" sects in America which made the news a few months ago and what these occurrences reveal about the thin veneer of our present civilization which, at least until now, seems to be even more primitive than those mythical adventures from a Bronze age Oedipous.
The simple fact that VN's "Lolita" invites us to constantly debate issues related to what, shockingly, turns out to happen in reality all over the world, illustrates the social importance of art - independently of the artist's original motivation. .
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