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  • in Nabokov's Ada, a governess, through the ruckus of a barn fire, sleeps on: "snoring with a wheeze and a harkle," which may be Vladimir's onomatopoeic word for a gurgling in the back of a snoring throat: back there where you hawk a loogie.

    July 17, 2020