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NOTES
1
Mortmain ['mo:tmeinl — a term used in law to denote perpetual
ownership, inalienable possession
(Russ. мертвая рука), here used
figuratively.
2
Retsina — a Greek wine.
3
Sunium
— Cape Sunium in Greece, the South extremity of Attic
Peninsula, on the Aegian Sea, the site of ruins of the ancient temple of
Poseidon.
4
death's head = a death's head (or
skeleton) at the feast — a
person or
thing that mars the gaiety, pleasure, etc.
In ancient Egypt there was a
custom of placing a
skeleton at a feast in a conspicuous place, so as to
remind the guests of death.
5
ideas-bank
(metaph.)
—
a
hiding
place
where
Car-
ter and Josephine used to keep their notes, sketches, etc.
6
Napoule ( — Golfe de la Napoule)
— a bay of the Mediterranean, S. E.
France, along French Riviera. Cannes is on its N. E. shore.
7
Spenser's line
— Edmund Spenser
(1552-1599) — English poet-
laureat, the greatest poet of the English Renaissance period.
8
antennae
(pl.) — feelers on the head of an insect, here used figura-
tively, meaning the kind of sixth sense the lover possesses
(Russ. чутье,
инстинкт).
9
tarmac
(abbrev.) — tar of macadam
— a macadam road, i
.e. a road
made of
layers of
broken stone, surfaced with a tar composition,
(here) a
runway, i.e. a track along which aeroplanes move
(Russ. взлетно-
посадочная дорожка)
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