Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0017780, Sun, 1 Mar 2009 09:13:39 -0600

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Re: River of Time
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I found a picture of "The River of Time," which Alexey Sklyarenko mentioned:
http://www.photoshare.ru/photo2606013.html

On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 6:17 AM, Alexey Sklyarenko <skylark05@mail.ru>wrote:

> For those who are interested in it: the description of the picture ("The
> River of Time, ot the Emblematic Representation of the World History", a
> kind of allegoric map) that hung in Derzhavin's room and was the source of
> his inspiration can be found in "Last Verses", a wonderful article by Natan
> Eidelman: http://vivovoco.rsl.ru/VV/PAPERS/NYE/LASTLINE.HTM (text in
> Russian). Alas, I failed to find in the Internet the image of the map
> itself.
>
> Funny, in his article (written in 1985) Eidelman calls Oxyrynchus (the
> Greek name of Pemdje, aka el-Bahnasa, a town in Upper Egypt, about 160
> km south-west of Cairo, an archaeological site where so many papirus texts
> dating from the time of the Ptolemaic and Roman periods of Egyptian history
> were discovered) "the greatest rubbish dump in the world". The Internet
> (where one can find so many gems, precious stones and spurious stones) seems
> to be an even greater one these days. I occasionally enjoy rummaging in it.
>
> Alexey Sklyarenko
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