(46) Where Pushkin uses the noun "nega" (tenderness), Nabokov uses " mollitude " and "dulcitude" in order to suggest the semantic history of "nega" (a calque from the French, certainly, but also fully integrated by the Russian adjective "nezhnyi," or "tender").

Barth receives $1,500 to support the recording of a music video of the artist's performance of " Mollitude ," composed for her by Frederic Rzewski.