EDNote: There is surely some connection to Pushkin in all this,
especially to widespread ironic self-reference in EO and especially to
ch 3:XIV, a stanza believed to have much significance for VN
(especially for Ada), in which "Pushkin" foretells a future
work of his. -SB
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Hello to all -
I could not yet find a poem with something exactly matching
the "note for further use" in PF, but I believe the following
two examples show the litterary context that could be known
to Nabokov and opens many possibilities for extrapolation.
(a) In the "Poem without a hero" by Akhmatova (Poema bez geroia,
1946-65)
we find the following case. She writes:
Somewhere around this place (...) wandered the following lines but
I did not include them in the main text
(the lines follow)
and THIS IS THE MAIN TEXT of canonical edition.
The text was published more or less at the same time as PF.
(b) In the poem "Hammeln" by Tsvetaeva (1925) - very probably known
to VN who respected Tsvetaeva - there are
some remarks like:
"here begins a little diversion concering buttons"
"here ends the ode to the buttons and the story continues"
This is not very far from "note for further use".
Best,
Sergei