Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0010496, Mon, 1 Nov 2004 07:21:03 -0800

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Date: Mon, 01 Nov 2004 06:50:59 -0800
From: Carolyn <chaiselongue@earthlink.net>

EDNOTE. A scholar/translator's work is never done. I suspect Boyd is right
here. Ada's nose is being compared to the dog's nose, not that of the Siberian
tribe,that lent the dog its name.


Could this be a reference to the nose rub "kiss" - - at least among Eskimos?
Do Samoyedi express affection that way too? Or could Nabokov be mocking
Freud again?

Carolyn

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