* - ‘All happy families are more or
less dissimilar; all unhappy ones are more or less alike,’ says a great Russian
writer in the beginning of a famous novel (Anna Arkadievitch Karenina,
transfigured into English by R.G. Stonelower, Mount Tabor Ltd., 1880). That
pronouncement has little if any relation to the story to be unfolded now, a
family chronicle, the first part of which is, perhaps, closer to another Tolstoy
work, Detstvo i Otrochestvo (Childhood and Fatherland, Pontius Press,
1858)."
** - Alexey Sklyarenko: Boyd: that Vere de Vere: "Lady Clara Vere
de Vere" was "The title and heroine of a poem (1842) by Tennyson.// Romantically inclined handmaids, whose reading consisted of
Gwen de Vere and Klara Mertvago, adored Van, adored
Ada, adored Ardis's ardors in arbors. (2.7) // The opening poem of
The Poems of Yuri Zhivago (in Pasternak's novel,
Lara Antipov is Zhivago's mistress) is Gamlet ("Hamlet").
Gamlet is a half-Russian village near Ardis (1.5). On the other
hand, Ophelia and Claudius are mentioned in this chapter
(1.32).// 'But let's be serious, I still don't see how
and why his wife - I mean the second guy's wife - accepts the situation
(polozhenie).'
Vronsky spread his fingers and toes.//
'Prichyom tut polozhenie
(situation-shituation)?' (1.32) // Vronsky (who was Marina's lover
in 1871, before leaving her for another long-lashed Khristosik) is
perplexed, because polozhenie (situation) also means "pregnancy" (and
one of the guests, Elsie Rack, is pregnant). The interesting phrase
interesnoe polozhenie occurs earlier in Ada:// Marina arrived in Nice a few days after the duel, and tracked
Demon down in his villa Armina, and in the ecstasy of reconciliation neither
remembered to dupe procreation, whereupon started the extremely interesnoe
polozhenie ('interesting condition') without which, in fact, these
anguished notes could not have been strung. (1.2)
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# - ADA: Following Darkbloom's note on p.138. Lute: from ‘Lutèce’, ancient name of
Paris.
However (wikipedia): Lutetia (also Lutetia Parisiorum in Latin,
Lukotekia before, in French Lutèce) was a town in pre-Roman and Roman Gaul. The
Gallo-Roman city was a forerunner of the re-established Merovingian town that is
the ancestor of present-day Paris. Lutetia and Paris have little in common save
their position where an island, the Île de la Cité, created a convenient ford of
the Seine.
The primitive Λουκοτοκία (Strabon), Λευκοτεκία (Ptolemeus),
Lutetia (Caesar) maybe contain the Celtic root *luco-t- 'mouse' + -ek(t)ia =
'the mice', Breton logod, Welsh llygod, Irish luch (cf. Bibracte, *bibro
'beaver' + -acti = 'the beavers')[1] or another Celtic root luto-,
luteuo-'marsh', 'swamp' (Gaelic loth 'marsh', Breton loudour 'dirty')[2] like in
Lutudarum (Derbyshire, England); Lodève (Luteua); Ludesse (France);Lutitia
(Germany), etc.(wikipedia). Interesting coincidences in the references to terms
used elsewhere by VN: "mouse/mice", "beavers", "marsh, swamp" and
"logod"