Tolstoy question 5

[Svetlana Grenier]

I may be naive, but it seems to me that  линейка и простыня make perfect 
sense together as a description of traveling in a 'lineika' which has a 
'prostynia'--they make more sense to me than 'lineika' as a 'ruler' and 
'prostynia' as a 'bed sheet,'. because the connection between the two is 
quite unclear  As Will Ryan wisely suggested, Dal' is always a good 
place to go to. See quotes from Dal' below:

Простыня санная, покрывало, чтобы не забрасывало снегом, ископытью.
Линейка ... широкие, многоместные дрожки, *в старину с фартуками, а 
иногда и с занавесами, как кровать*; | пролетки, пролетные дрожки.
ФАРТУК м. немецк. *передник, запон*. Бабий фартук. *Линейка с 
фартуками*. Фартучный холст
Передник м. часть одежи, разного вида и покроя, для прикрытия и оберегу 
передней и более нижней части тела; запон, занавеска, фартук.
Поварской передник, поясной, но обходит почти кругом.

Just a thought...

Svetlana

Judson Rosengrant wrote:

>I have to agree with Prof. Mclean in regard to the erotic dimension.
>There are certainly many erotic moments in the trilogy (it is a major theme,
>just as it must be, given the narrative's broad subject of the passage from
>childhood to adulthood), but they are always quite subtle and nuanced
>(Tolstoy may have been much more sophisticated about sex than we are, may
>have had a much more complex understanding of it), and in any case the point
>here is indeed that Volodya's association of Katya with his childhood (they
>grew up as virtual brother and sister) has prevented him from seeing her as
>she now is, as a beautiful young woman of great charm (I omitted
>some text in my original quote, text that actually reinforces this point.)
>The title of the chapter, it shouldn't be overlooked, is Отношения между
>нами и девочками [NB], between the boys and their sisters, Любочка и
>Катенька.
>
>Оказалось, во всяком случае, что простыня далеко не простая.
>
>Jud     
>
>
>Judson Rosengrant, PhD
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Svetlana S. Grenier

Associate Professor
Department of Slavic Languages
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