Mary Efremov: muscat grape refers to the smelly seed of the
gingko, shed in november
Jansy Mello: Interesting! I thought it referred to
the yellow-pink kind of muscat grapes, not the smell. I was focusing
on color and forgetting that Nabokov was extremely aware of details and
precision and the comparison, by color, ignores the green, violet and dark
muscat grapes. Nabokov's synesthetic abilities invite readers to "see" the world
by sound, smell, touch, motion instead of only shapes and color!