NABOKV-L post 0008312, Sun, 3 Aug 2003 12:38:45 -0700

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From: "Andrew Brown" <as-brown@comcast.net>
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> Elmer's is the white stuff. You squeeze it out of a small hole.
> You don't want to be confusing holes and slits.
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> From: "D. Barton Johnson" <chtodel@cox.net>
> To: <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
> Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2003 12:18 AM
> Subject: Fw: Aunt Maud's ""golden paste "Pale Fire" Canto I, ll.102-5
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> > From: "s~Z" <keithsz@concentric.net>
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> > > >>>I believe the golden paste is simply the glue that was called
> > mucilage<<<
> > >
> > > After reading ADA, I gave up on any image being simply what it
appeared.
> > The
> > > visual image of the gooey slit in those Elmer's Glue rubber tops is
> > > consistent with a sexual reading of the lines. Mucilage is a sexy
word,
> > too.
> > >
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