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From: "Tom Rymour" <tom@discobolus.co.za>
To: "D. Barton Johnson" <chtodel@cox.net>
Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 12:34 AM
Subject: Fwd: Fleur de Fyler and Gradiva...
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>
>> > Have just worked my way through the latest avalanche of postings, which
> > prompted a couple of animadversions:
> >
> > The infinitely-reflected Fleur: when I was about five, I suppose, my
> > brother Alex discovered a miracle. When we crawled into the mirror-lined
> > display window of our grandfather's baker's shop, we saw infinite copies
> > of ourselves. Some small misalignment made the receding images of two
wee
> > Scots boys curve away like the whispering gallery of St Paul's Cathedral
> > in London.
> >
> > Fleur is not the only girl in VN's oeuvre to have three patches of body
> > hair. I seem to recall a tryst on an island in a river where Van brings
> > along a razor and relieves Ada of her three "mouse pits." Antiterran
> > anatomy? And Van's about as gay as the Bad Lord Byron! Maybe it's the
> > "pit" aspect that frightens Charles the Beloved; the same thing a good
> > old heter like King Lear once condemned as "the sulphurous pit."
> >
> > On the Gradiva thing: in the Thirties, Salvador Dali labeled a portait
of
> > his wife "Gala-Gradiva, celle qui avance."
> >
> > Good heavens, I seem to be free-associating as wildly as a veteran from
> > the Pynchon list! Enough.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Tom
>
>
>
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From: "Tom Rymour" <tom@discobolus.co.za>
To: "D. Barton Johnson" <chtodel@cox.net>
Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 12:34 AM
Subject: Fwd: Fleur de Fyler and Gradiva...
>
>
>> > Have just worked my way through the latest avalanche of postings, which
> > prompted a couple of animadversions:
> >
> > The infinitely-reflected Fleur: when I was about five, I suppose, my
> > brother Alex discovered a miracle. When we crawled into the mirror-lined
> > display window of our grandfather's baker's shop, we saw infinite copies
> > of ourselves. Some small misalignment made the receding images of two
wee
> > Scots boys curve away like the whispering gallery of St Paul's Cathedral
> > in London.
> >
> > Fleur is not the only girl in VN's oeuvre to have three patches of body
> > hair. I seem to recall a tryst on an island in a river where Van brings
> > along a razor and relieves Ada of her three "mouse pits." Antiterran
> > anatomy? And Van's about as gay as the Bad Lord Byron! Maybe it's the
> > "pit" aspect that frightens Charles the Beloved; the same thing a good
> > old heter like King Lear once condemned as "the sulphurous pit."
> >
> > On the Gradiva thing: in the Thirties, Salvador Dali labeled a portait
of
> > his wife "Gala-Gradiva, celle qui avance."
> >
> > Good heavens, I seem to be free-associating as wildly as a veteran from
> > the Pynchon list! Enough.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Tom
>
>
>
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> Using M2, Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/