Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0010719, Mon, 6 Dec 2004 18:47:00 -0800

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Fw: the kind of window here depicted...
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From: Jansy Berndt de Souza Mello
To: don barton johnson
Sent: Monday, December 06, 2004 5:54 PM
Subject: the kind of window here depicted...



Dear Don,
I don´t know how this kind of window is named elsewhere, but in Brazil it is a "guilhotina".
In TT the reference to the French Revolution in "lunette" is quite clear, but I think that it is worth checking if VN could not have been linking the guillotine and this kind of corporeal punishment as shown in the cartoon
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Jansy, Dunno, but, as I recall. VN's reference is to the absence of spanking in his family home. You may be over-extending, no?