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From: "sZ" <keithsz@concentric.net>
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Sent: Sunday, September 14, 2003 8:44 PM
Subject: Art Imitates Life
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> Dmitri Nabokov wrote:
> "When I was stumped, he was always ready to explain"
>
> Then I (Keith) had this image:
>
> Sometimes I'd help him with a recent text,
> Or he'd be reading in his bedroom, next
> To my fluorescent lair. and you would be
> In your own study twice removed from me,
> And I would hear both voices now and then:
> "Mother, what's MIROK?" "What is what?"
> "MI ROK."
> Pause, and your guarded scholium. Then again:
> "Mother, what's MESHCHANINER? That, too, you'd explain,
> Appending: "Would you like a tangerine?"
> "No. Yes. And what does VED'MIN SYN mean?"
> You'd hesitate. And lustily I'd roar
> The answer from desk through the closed door.
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John Shade re Hazel:
Sometimes I'd help her with
a Latin text,
Or she'd be reading in her
bedroom, next
To my fluorescent lair,
and you would be
In your own study, twice
removed from me,
And I would hear both
voices now and then:
"Mother, what's grimpen?"
"What is what?"
"Grim Pen."
Pause, and your guarded
scholium. Then again:
"Mother, what's chtonic?"
That, too, you'd explain,
Appending: "Would you like
a tangerine?"
"No. Yes. And what does
sempiternal mean?"
You'd hesitate. And
lustily I'd roar
The answer from my desk
through the closed door.
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From: "sZ" <keithsz@concentric.net>
To: <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
Sent: Sunday, September 14, 2003 8:44 PM
Subject: Art Imitates Life
>
> ----------------- Message requiring your approval (18
lines) ------------------
> Dmitri Nabokov wrote:
> "When I was stumped, he was always ready to explain"
>
> Then I (Keith) had this image:
>
> Sometimes I'd help him with a recent text,
> Or he'd be reading in his bedroom, next
> To my fluorescent lair. and you would be
> In your own study twice removed from me,
> And I would hear both voices now and then:
> "Mother, what's MIROK?" "What is what?"
> "MI ROK."
> Pause, and your guarded scholium. Then again:
> "Mother, what's MESHCHANINER? That, too, you'd explain,
> Appending: "Would you like a tangerine?"
> "No. Yes. And what does VED'MIN SYN mean?"
> You'd hesitate. And lustily I'd roar
> The answer from desk through the closed door.
-------------------------------------------------------------
John Shade re Hazel:
Sometimes I'd help her with
a Latin text,
Or she'd be reading in her
bedroom, next
To my fluorescent lair,
and you would be
In your own study, twice
removed from me,
And I would hear both
voices now and then:
"Mother, what's grimpen?"
"What is what?"
"Grim Pen."
Pause, and your guarded
scholium. Then again:
"Mother, what's chtonic?"
That, too, you'd explain,
Appending: "Would you like
a tangerine?"
"No. Yes. And what does
sempiternal mean?"
You'd hesitate. And
lustily I'd roar
The answer from my desk
through the closed door.
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