I have to admit I'm stumped.<div><br><div>"White" and "end" are big sign posts.  White means Death most often in GR. "End" never comes.  "Odd" times 3 is maybe a chant. </div><div>
<br></div><div>Tongue claps make no sense to me in this context.  The Foudations of Mexico Numb-Bers be a-shaking! </div><div><br></div><div>Physical is spiritual.</div><div><br></div><div>I'm stumped.<span></span></div>
<div><br></div><div><br>On Thursday, May 15, 2014, Doc Sportello <<a href="mailto:coolwithdoc@gmail.com">coolwithdoc@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<p dir="ltr">I don't know any Nabokov beyond Lolita, probably why I went in that direction. When I enunciate "odd, odd, odd" as its written it feels, to me at least, awkward and the "clap" doesn't smoothly roll into the next "odd." As Pynchon writes, it feels as though it should go beyond the roof of the mouth. Contrasted with "Lo-lee-ta" which feels very much like a small poem at the final tap of the tongue, like it's ringing almost, it feels "right" I guess.</p>
<p dir="ltr">But that's where I wonder if the enunciation only feels right or wrong to me because I read the description of how it's supposed to feel. <br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On May 15, 2014 8:32 AM, "Monte Davis" <<a href="javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','montedavis49@gmail.com');" target="_blank">montedavis49@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution">
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<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">It doesn't strike me as specific to <i>Lolita</i>, but Nabokov did mention the "mouth feel" -- anatomical details of enunciation -- as well as their synesthetic associations with colors, textures etc,) more often than any other writer who comes to mind. I recall noticing them several times re: himself in the memoir <i>Speak, Memory,</i> and as part of Van Veen's perpetual wordplay in <i>Ada.</i>Â </div>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 10:39 AM, Doc Sportello <span dir="ltr"><<a href="javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','coolwithdoc@gmail.com');" target="_blank">coolwithdoc@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr">"<i>Odd</i>, <i>odd</i>, <i>odd</i>—think of the word: such white finality in its closing clap of <i>tongue</i>. "</p>
<p dir="ltr">Is this a Lolita reference/homage or just a whatever?</p>
<p dir="ltr">"the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta."</p>
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