Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0025408, Fri, 23 May 2014 13:14:36 -0300

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[NABOKV -L] A certain kind of immortality...
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Variations on: "Shade [smiling and massaging my knee]: "Kings do not die -
they only disappear, eh, Charles?" " (Pale Fire)

Still wondering about Erwin's song (from VN's "A Nursery Tale" adapted
short-story in a London play) and the musician G. Rossini, I finally came to
his overture of "The Barber of Seville" - where I read a comment on the
youtube link stating that "old artists never die, they just become
enchanted".

It reminded me of Kinbote's reported dialogue with John Shade and this time
I found a new site with innumerous variations of the same idea.

The closest to Nabokov's is the already mentioned "Old magicians never die,
they just disappear" [already discussed in a past VN-L exchange on Thursday,
August 03, 2006 12:49 PM with Subject: [NABOKV-L] Kings never die...( Pale
Fire).
https://listserv.ucsb.edu/lsv-cgi-bin/wa?A3=ind0608&L=NABOKV-L&E=quoted-prin
table&P=133618&B=------%3D_NextPart_000_0023_01C6B721.C7AC00E0&T=text%2Fhtml
;%20charset=iso-8859-1]

For other examples found at this new site:
http://www.joe-ks.com/archives_sep2004/Old_People_Never_Die.htm
Kinbote's quip isn't very original at all.

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