GR question

[David Morris]

I have to admit I'm stumped.

"White" and "end" are big sign posts.  White means Death most often in GR.
"End" never comes.  "Odd" times 3 is maybe a chant.

Tongue claps make no sense to me in this context.  The Foudations of Mexico
Numb-Bers be a-shaking!

Physical is spiritual.

I'm stumped.


On Thursday, May 15, 2014, Doc Sportello <coolwithdoc at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
> 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.
>  On May 15, 2014 8:32 AM, "Monte Davis" <montedavis49 at gmail.com<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','montedavis49 at gmail.com');>>
> wrote:
>
>> It doesn't strike me as specific to *Lolita*, 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 *Speak, Memory,* and as part of Van Veen's
>> perpetual wordplay in *Ada.*
>>
>>
>> On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 10:39 AM, Doc Sportello <coolwithdoc at gmail.com<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','coolwithdoc at gmail.com');>
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> "*Odd*, *odd*, *odd*—think of the word: such white finality in its
>>> closing clap of *tongue*. "
>>>
>>> Is this a Lolita reference/homage or just a whatever?
>>>
>>> "the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to
>>> tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta."
>>>
>>
>>
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