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Re: Pretty little things in ADA's geography...
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Alexey Sklyarenko: ‘You look quite satanically fit, Dad. ...‘I offered myself en effet a trip to Akapulkovo,’ answered Demon, needlessly and unwillingly recollecting (with that special concussion of instant detail that also plagued his children) a violet-and-black-striped fish in a bowl, a similarly striped couch, the subtropical sun bringing out the veins of an onyx ashtray on the stone floor, a batch of old, orange-juice-stained Povesa (playboy) magazines, the jewels he had brought, the phonograph singing in a dreamy girl’s voice’ Petit negre, au champ qui fleuronne,’ and the admirable abdomen of a very expensive, and very faithless and altogether adorable young Creole. (1.38) Akapulkovo blends Acapulco, a seaport and resort in SW Mexico, on the Pacific, with Pulkovo, the site of the famous observatory and the airport near St. Petersburg. Pulkovo is mentioned in Chapter Three of The Gift...Soon after buying an island in the Gavailles ("a small, perfectly round Pacific island"), Demon perishes in a mysterious airplane disaster abovve the Pacific. (3.7)
The Sandwich Islands (the former name of the Hawaiian Islands) are mentioned in The Golden Calf (chapter XVI, "Jahrbuch fuer Psychoanalytik"):
"Miss Condor" is a play on con d'or. In The Golden Calf (chapter II, "Thirty Sons of Lieutenant Schmidt") Ostap Bender mentions a Charlseton said to be popular in Rio de Janeiro, the city of Ostap's dreams: "U moey devochki est' odna malen'kaya shtuchka" ("My Girl has One Little Thing")
Jansy Mello: Many surprises for an outsider, like me. Charleston as a popular dance in Rioo de Janeiro, a girl's little things and Bender's chapter XVI and the obscene pun on Miss Condor...In Rio, and elsewhere in Brazil, there was a famous popular Carmen Miranda song about "What does the baia native girl ("baiana") possess?"* (besides pineapples and bananas on her head) and small bracelets charms with a small doll whose skirt could be lifted to mark what was, really, the most prized Condor of all....
* - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojo3I59Gn6c and the charm:
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The Sandwich Islands (the former name of the Hawaiian Islands) are mentioned in The Golden Calf (chapter XVI, "Jahrbuch fuer Psychoanalytik"):
"Miss Condor" is a play on con d'or. In The Golden Calf (chapter II, "Thirty Sons of Lieutenant Schmidt") Ostap Bender mentions a Charlseton said to be popular in Rio de Janeiro, the city of Ostap's dreams: "U moey devochki est' odna malen'kaya shtuchka" ("My Girl has One Little Thing")
Jansy Mello: Many surprises for an outsider, like me. Charleston as a popular dance in Rioo de Janeiro, a girl's little things and Bender's chapter XVI and the obscene pun on Miss Condor...In Rio, and elsewhere in Brazil, there was a famous popular Carmen Miranda song about "What does the baia native girl ("baiana") possess?"* (besides pineapples and bananas on her head) and small bracelets charms with a small doll whose skirt could be lifted to mark what was, really, the most prized Condor of all....
* - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojo3I59Gn6c and the charm:
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