Subject:
RE: NABOKV-L Digest - 29 Sep 2015 to 30 Sep 2015 (#2015-233)
From:
Rob Schmieder <rwschmieder@hotmail.com>
Date:
10/1/2015 9:34 AM
To:
Vladimir Nabokov Forum <nabokv-l@listserv.ucsb.edu>

"Kinbote nicknamed his gardener “Balthasar, Prince of Loam:”"

quoted by Sklyarenko in today's post - seeing this line in isolation, it occurs to me that in his travels VN might have been exposed to one of the American isoglosses where "loam" is pronounced "loom" giving it a completely different resonance

--Rob Schmieder
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