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From: Bouazza, Abdellah
To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum
Sent: Friday, April 11, 2003 12:02 AM
Subject: RE: Fw: Parenthetical Images

Hello All,
    Peter Lubin in his magnificent "Kickshaws and Motley" drew attention to this stylistic feature which he called, if I'm not mistaken, "cola".
                                                                Kind regards, A. Bouazza
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EDNOTE. Abdellah Bouazza is quite right in pointing to Peter Lubin's classic (and hilariously brilliant) article that appeared in the Northwestern TRIQUARTERLY Nabokov issue #17 (Winter 1970), p. 187-209. His essay should be reprinted for the delectation of all good Nabokovians. Lubin does use the term "cola"  but only as a putative partial source for a word he coins: "capicue" meaning a numerical palindrome. Nicholson Baker also toys with "cola" (< Lat. coda 'tail') in a stunning article "The History of Punctuation" (in his collection _The Size of Thoughts_) which offers the coinage "Colash" a blend of 'cola' and 'dash' (:__).