Mascodagama's
spectacular success in a theatrical club that habitually limited itself to
Elizabethan plays, with queens and fairies played by pretty boys, made first of
all a great impact on cartoonists. Deans, local politicians, national statesmen,
and of course the current ruler of the Golden Horde were pictured as
mascodagamas by topical humorists. (1.30)
The current ruler of the Golden Horde (on
Antiterra) was Khan Sosso:
Eastward, instead of Khan Sosso and
his ruthless Sovietnamur Khanate, a super Russia, dominating the Volga region
and similar watersheds, was governed by a Sovereign Society of Solicitous
Republics (or so it came through) which had superseded the Tsars, conquerors of
Tartary and Trst. (2.2)
Sosso + tabak = Tasso + Sobak/basok/skoba/Boska = sosok
+ basta = soska + boast = sobaka + toss = Koba + sto + ass = os + osa
+ Bakst
moloko + Sosso + sedlo + lait = molokosos + sosed +
Lolita*
Sosso - a play on Soso (Dzhugashvili's first name)
tabak - Russ.,
tobacco
Tasso - Torquato
Tasso
basok - little bass voice;
bass-string (e. g., of a violin)
skoba - cramp(-iron),
etc.
Boska - Pol., of God; cf.
Matka Boska, Mother of God
sosok - Russ.,
nipple
soska - Russ., baby's
dummy
sobaka - Russ.,
dog
Koba - Stalin's nickname
(after a character in Kazbeghi's novel The Patricide)
sto - Russ.,
hundred
os - Lat., bone
osa - Russ.,
wasp
Bakst - Leon Rozenberg (a
painter mentioned in Speak, Memory)
moloko - Russ.,
milk
sedlo - Russ.,
saddle
lait - Fr.,
milk
molokosos - Russ.,
greenhorn
sosed - Russ.,
neighbor
*see also my recent post on
Mascodagama, Pushkin's Count Nulin and England as the home
country of cartoon and parody
Alexey
Sklyarenko