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Thanks, James. Nick Antosca¹s first quotation from Lolita includes that
mood-killing technical word, NATES, which, unsurprisingly, 12-year-old Nick
has to look up. Alas, NATES still rhymes with GRATES in my affronted
Anglophonic soul. Unless you pronounce NATES as \nartays\, the Latin plural
of NATIS, which is, presumably. just one singular, turn-the-other-cheek bum.
If the use of NATES is to suggest a surgical lexicon/mindset for Humbert,
why does VN use the everyday English
SHOULDER-BLADES in the same passage, rather than the matching cold-medical
OMOPLATES (found elsewhere. e.g., in The Original of Laura, about which
Jansy and I have had several exchanges)?
Nick and I, and most honest males, see Lolita with a sweet, young,
out-of-bounds ass. Her nates belong with her glutæus maximus (suitably
pluralized) on some Gray¹s (not Grey¹s) Anatomy Dissection Table.
Stan Kelly-Bootle.
On 21/10/2010 17:13, "James Twiggs" <jtwigzz@YAHOO.COM> wrote:
> THE PARIS REVIEW
>
> DEPARTMENT OF SEX ED
> <http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/category/department-of-sex-ed/>
> Reading Lolita at Twelve
> October 1, 2010 | by Nick Antosca
> <http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/author/nantosca/>
>
> http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2010/10/01/reading-lolita-at-twelve/
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mood-killing technical word, NATES, which, unsurprisingly, 12-year-old Nick
has to look up. Alas, NATES still rhymes with GRATES in my affronted
Anglophonic soul. Unless you pronounce NATES as \nartays\, the Latin plural
of NATIS, which is, presumably. just one singular, turn-the-other-cheek bum.
If the use of NATES is to suggest a surgical lexicon/mindset for Humbert,
why does VN use the everyday English
SHOULDER-BLADES in the same passage, rather than the matching cold-medical
OMOPLATES (found elsewhere. e.g., in The Original of Laura, about which
Jansy and I have had several exchanges)?
Nick and I, and most honest males, see Lolita with a sweet, young,
out-of-bounds ass. Her nates belong with her glutæus maximus (suitably
pluralized) on some Gray¹s (not Grey¹s) Anatomy Dissection Table.
Stan Kelly-Bootle.
On 21/10/2010 17:13, "James Twiggs" <jtwigzz@YAHOO.COM> wrote:
> THE PARIS REVIEW
>
> DEPARTMENT OF SEX ED
> <http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/category/department-of-sex-ed/>
> Reading Lolita at Twelve
> October 1, 2010 | by Nick Antosca
> <http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/author/nantosca/>
>
> http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2010/10/01/reading-lolita-at-twelve/
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