Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0013158, Sun, 27 Aug 2006 17:46:05 +0200

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Re: [Fwd: Swooners?]
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Dear Aris Fioretos,

According to Alfred Appel in The Annotated Lolita it is `swooners: H.H.'s
variant of the noun, its meaning expanded to include some garment that
evokes a swoon.'
So I think that in this case you have to invent something by yourself...

yours,

Wim Sanders

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