Although as Jansy well knows, Ada is my least favorite VN novel, now that my name has come up, I may as well follow it by sticking my own nose in and ask the as yet unasked question: why does Ada put those larvae (which larvae, by the way - - do we know?) in with Krolik's body? Any theories (I have one of my own, of course).

Carolyn

On Jan 16, 2010, at 8:35 AM, jansymello wrote:

C. Kunin (2003) "Madame Blavatsky had some very strange ideas about Lemurians that might have appealed to Nabokov. There may be a link to those lemans in Ada, but I don't know."

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"Dr Krolik received from Andalusia and kindly gave me five young larvae of the newly described very local Carmen Tortoiseshell. They are delightful creatures, of a beautiful jade nuance with silvery spikes, and they breed only on a semi-extinct species of high-mountain willow (which dear Crawly also obtained for me)."

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