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Re: THOUGHTS re:Faberge eggs
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This reminds me of part of the poem,"An Evening of Russian Poetry," in
Poems and Problems which I no longer own and is now out of print I believe,
but lives on here:
http://www.sapov.ru/novoe/n00-39.htm
But lapidary epithets are few;
we do not deal in universal rubies.
The angle and the glitter are subdued;
our reaches lie concealed. We never liked
the jeweler's window in the rainy night.
--Tim Henderson
>
> *David Haan* brought up VN's sentence in SM ("We drift past the show
> windows of Fabergé whose mineral monstrosities, jeweled troykas poised on
> marble ostrich eggs, and the like, highly appreciated by the imperial
> family, were emblems of grotesque garishness to ours." *Speak, Memory*,
> 5.5), followed by a penetrating commentary that envelops A.Hammer and Clancy
> Martin with another matryoshka shell. He added: "Clancy Martin suggests this
> has more to do with the Romanovs:
> http://www.lrb.co.uk/v31/n03/mart02_.html" and links a pargraph to VN's
> sensibility and his dedication to Vera [ as Martin writes:"The secret of
> Fabergé's enormous success as a salesman was that, unlike the other
> jewellers serving the royal court, he understood his work to be primarily
> the making of gifts[...] Fabergé, however, wanted to give each egg an
> individual significance, with a private (indeed, secret) meaning for the
> giver and the receiver."]
>
>
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Poems and Problems which I no longer own and is now out of print I believe,
but lives on here:
http://www.sapov.ru/novoe/n00-39.htm
But lapidary epithets are few;
we do not deal in universal rubies.
The angle and the glitter are subdued;
our reaches lie concealed. We never liked
the jeweler's window in the rainy night.
--Tim Henderson
>
> *David Haan* brought up VN's sentence in SM ("We drift past the show
> windows of Fabergé whose mineral monstrosities, jeweled troykas poised on
> marble ostrich eggs, and the like, highly appreciated by the imperial
> family, were emblems of grotesque garishness to ours." *Speak, Memory*,
> 5.5), followed by a penetrating commentary that envelops A.Hammer and Clancy
> Martin with another matryoshka shell. He added: "Clancy Martin suggests this
> has more to do with the Romanovs:
> http://www.lrb.co.uk/v31/n03/mart02_.html" and links a pargraph to VN's
> sensibility and his dedication to Vera [ as Martin writes:"The secret of
> Fabergé's enormous success as a salesman was that, unlike the other
> jewellers serving the royal court, he understood his work to be primarily
> the making of gifts[...] Fabergé, however, wanted to give each egg an
> individual significance, with a private (indeed, secret) meaning for the
> giver and the receiver."]
>
>
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