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Just for the record, here are Emily Dickinson's quatrains about Nobodiness.
"I'm nobody! Who are you?" by Emily Dickinson
(published in 1891)
I'm nobody! Who are you?
Are you nobody, too?
Then there's a pair of us - don't tell!
They'd banish us, you know.
How dreary to be somebody!
How public, like a frog
To tell your name the livelong day
To an admiring bog!
-----Mensagem Original-----
De: Chaswe@AOL.COM
Para: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
Enviada em: quinta-feira, 9 de agosto de 2012 16:38
Assunto: Re: [NABOKV-L] Nobody? Nemo? let's call the whole think off!
These days almost anything you want to know is supplied by Google. I've just checked, and I see I made a terrible and dreadful mistake in 2006. Hogarth's Mr Nobody has no arms either --- his legs come out of his ears. See image on British Museum website, and quote: "One of 10 illustrations to the manuscript by Ebenezer Forrest of Hogarth's Peregrination, 1732; emblematic tail-piece of 'Mr Nobody', with the head and legs of a laughing man in a tricorne and powdered wig, with a wine bottle, a glass, a trophy of a knife, spoon and pipe, the whole backed by crossed oars. Pen and brown ink, with grey wash and watercolour, over graphite. Signed: "W.H.""
Alas, C
In a message dated 09/08/2012 15:30:36 GMT Daylight Time, chaiselongue@ATT.NET writes:
p.s. and thank you, too Chas W and so on, for the Hogarth information. I thought I knew the big Hog man, but I have never seen his nobody, excuse me, his Nobody - or read the joke - what a treat! I must take up a collection of these nobody jokes!
On Aug 8, 2012, at 12:16 PM, Chaswe@AOL.COM wrote:
Subject: Re: [NABOKV-L] Botkin or nikto (b?)
Date: 29/10/2006
Can't resist mentioning that the "Nobody" joke has tickled others. William Hogarth produced a fairly well-known drawing of Nobody. This consisted of a man furnished only with head, arms and legs.
Good Lord ! SIX YEARS AGO ! Nobody's memory is better than mine --- and he runs faster, too.
Charles
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"I'm nobody! Who are you?" by Emily Dickinson
(published in 1891)
I'm nobody! Who are you?
Are you nobody, too?
Then there's a pair of us - don't tell!
They'd banish us, you know.
How dreary to be somebody!
How public, like a frog
To tell your name the livelong day
To an admiring bog!
-----Mensagem Original-----
De: Chaswe@AOL.COM
Para: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
Enviada em: quinta-feira, 9 de agosto de 2012 16:38
Assunto: Re: [NABOKV-L] Nobody? Nemo? let's call the whole think off!
These days almost anything you want to know is supplied by Google. I've just checked, and I see I made a terrible and dreadful mistake in 2006. Hogarth's Mr Nobody has no arms either --- his legs come out of his ears. See image on British Museum website, and quote: "One of 10 illustrations to the manuscript by Ebenezer Forrest of Hogarth's Peregrination, 1732; emblematic tail-piece of 'Mr Nobody', with the head and legs of a laughing man in a tricorne and powdered wig, with a wine bottle, a glass, a trophy of a knife, spoon and pipe, the whole backed by crossed oars. Pen and brown ink, with grey wash and watercolour, over graphite. Signed: "W.H.""
Alas, C
In a message dated 09/08/2012 15:30:36 GMT Daylight Time, chaiselongue@ATT.NET writes:
p.s. and thank you, too Chas W and so on, for the Hogarth information. I thought I knew the big Hog man, but I have never seen his nobody, excuse me, his Nobody - or read the joke - what a treat! I must take up a collection of these nobody jokes!
On Aug 8, 2012, at 12:16 PM, Chaswe@AOL.COM wrote:
Subject: Re: [NABOKV-L] Botkin or nikto (b?)
Date: 29/10/2006
Can't resist mentioning that the "Nobody" joke has tickled others. William Hogarth produced a fairly well-known drawing of Nobody. This consisted of a man furnished only with head, arms and legs.
Good Lord ! SIX YEARS AGO ! Nobody's memory is better than mine --- and he runs faster, too.
Charles
In a message dated 08/08/2012 16:48:38 GMT Daylight Time, nabokv-l@UTK.EDU writes:
From: Vladimir Nabokov Forum [NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU] on behalf of Carolyn Kunin [chaiselongue@ATT.NET] Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2012 9:44 PM
To: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
Subject: [NABOKV-L] more from the archives re nikto b'
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