NPPF: Commentary 3 (summary) Line 408

[Ghetta Life]

>From: bekah <bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net>

>Gradus proceeds to the house from which he hears piano music.
>[...]
>Gordon, .** a lad of  14 or 15, appears wearing a leopard spotted loin 
>cloth. As they walk in light and shadows to the gardens and pool Gordon is 
>wearing ivy. They walk on, Gordon makes his pronouncement about spending 
>the night with a friend on a nearby stained mattress. Then suddenly Gordon 
>is wearing black swim trunks. .**
>They reach the pool and while Gradus is a bit too heavy for the stools, 
>Gordon is described  as being a young woodwose.  ** Gordon gets naked and 
>Gradus spits and walks off. Gordon is definitely the more attractive of the 
>two. Nabokov is playing up the youthful and sensual, as natural and good.
>

Re. your last comment, I'd say it's not Nabokov's POV being portrayed, but 
Kinbote's, the boy-lover.  Gordon is here portrayed as a sexual-tease, sort 
of the male homosexual version of Lolita, and Kinbote clearly loves the 
images he's describing of an event that probably never happened, especially 
picturing his having stained that mattress with his boy-toy.

Ghetta

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