For all logophiles, logodaedalians, and logomancers.
In Pale Fire, the poet John Shade describes icicles as “stilettos of a frozen stillicide.”
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In Lolita, Humbert describes a summer day as such: “Heat ripple still with us; a most favonian week.”
The word appears in one of Humbert's fantasies: “There would have been a sultan, his face expressing great agony (belied, as it were, by his molding caress), helping a callypygean slave child to climb a column of onyx.”
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Humbert expresses the nightmare of his roadside travels with Lolita as such : “We passed and repassed through the whole gamut of American road side restaurants, from the lowly Eat with its deer head (dark trace of long tear at inner canthus), “humorous” picture post cards of the posterior “Kurort” type, impaled guest checks, life savers, sunglasses, adman visions of celestial sundaes, one half of a chocolate cake under glass, and several horribly experienced flies zigzagging over the sticky sugar-pour on the ignoble counter.”
14 Beautiful Nabokovian Words You Should Incorporate Into Your Daily Speech
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