Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0013752, Wed, 25 Oct 2006 10:48:38 -0700

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Query: PF's pirouetting nymph?
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Can some one in my aged age group (or older) identify the toiletry in this description in a TV commercial circa the early fifties? The winner will be immortalized in a footnote. Don Johnson







Line 412ff The Cause of Poetry on Channel 8.

A nymph came pirouetting, under white

Rotating petals, in a vernal rite

To kneel before an altar in a wood

Where various articles of toilet stood.

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