VN up to his usual.

[wwidsith]

(Hurrah, we finally have internet in our new flat!)

I've just read Nabokov's Transparent Things, a novel, or novella really, from the 70s, a first edition of which I found in a weird secondhand-bookshop-cum-tearoom round the corner from me run by an old woman from Omaha.

I was sent on a massive word-hunt by this sentence near the end:

On the

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[wwidsith]

No, and judging from the reviews I probably shouldn't. I don't think I'll be able to resist it however.

[weofodthignen]

Good, I was just wondering what was up with you.

M

[gnossiennes]

impuberal (comparative more impuberal, superlative most impuberal)

(rare) Immature; not having come to puberty.

1972, Vladimir Nabokov, Transparent Things, McGraw-Hill 1972, p. 41:

Another revelation of impuberal softness [...] was afforded by a photo of her in which she sat in the buff on the grass, combing her sun-shot hair and spreading wide, in false perspective, the lovely legs of a giantess.

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yeesh, what a perv Nabokov was!

[wwidsith]

He reeeeeaaally was.

[herself_nyc]

Do you know about wordnik?
Here's their entry for kex.

[ruakh]

And for kix. Apparently it was in The Century Dictionary.

… though unless you happen to have a copy of The Century Dictionary lying around that you haven't mentioned, I suppose that would still have required an Internet connection. So, uh, never mind.

[wwidsith]

Never seen that before - quite cool!