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From: jansymello
To: Jansy Berndt de Souza Mello
Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2007 10:59 PM
Dear List,
I started to organize today all the messages exchanged in Nov/Dec.2006 on "Pale Fire, the "Third Man" illusion and mentioning Shackleton, Webster, T.S.Eliot. It seems that the subject was initially brought up by CHW, and taken up by C.Kunin, DBJ and myself.
There is also a note by D.Nabokov: "An interesting sidelight: the early British mountaineers associated the "third man" illusion with the fogbow, today considered a related phenomenon but colorless, and pale but larger moonbow."
I think someone recently quoted Pushkin's verses, but I've been unable to find them in the Archives to obtain them in English.
I mean Pushkin's play "Mozart and Salieri" - when Mozart describes a man in black who ordered a Requiem and explains that his sponsor seems to be always behind him, "like a shadow, a third one sitting between him and Salieri."
I would like to locate this posting and, also, Pushkin's lines in English.
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