Peacock herl is a very popular natural material used in tying the body of many trout flies, especially nymphs --- not nymphets --that imitate the immature underwater form of a mayfly before it emerges, or "hatches," from a stream. The herl has great iridescence that trout find highly attractive, but it is delicate and easily torn by their teeth.  Thus as shown here several stands of herl are often wrapped on the shank of the hook and secured in place with nylon or silk tying thread or very fine wire.     UsingPeacockHerls blog

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On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 11:06 AM, Jansy Mello <jansy.mello@outlook.com> wrote:

Just two quote related to anglers:

 

C.K Line 109: iridule ; An iridescent cloudlet, Zemblan muderperlwelk. The term "iridule" is, I believe, Shade’s own invention. Above it, in the Fair Copy (card 9, July 4) he has written in pencil "peacock-herl." The peacock-herl is the body of a certain sort of artificial fly also called "alder." So the owner of this motor court, an ardent fisherman, tells me. (See also the "strange nacreous gleams" in line 634.)


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, 597; his logcabin in Cedarn and the little angler, a honey-skinned lad, naked except for a pair of torn dungarees, one trouser leg rolled up, frequently fed with nougat and nuts, but then school started or the weather changed…

 

 

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De: Vladimir Nabokov Forum [mailto:NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU] Em nome de Nabokv-L
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Assunto: [NABOKV-L] Two Citings of Nabokov in Analysis of Finnegans Wake

 

EDNote: Robert Boyle's important interview with Nabokov appeared in Sports Illustrated in 1959, and is reprinted in Nabokov's Butterflies (Brian Boyd and Robert M. Pyle, eds.).



Two Citings of Nabokov in Analysis of Finnegans Wake

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Two Citings of Nabokov in Analysis of Finnegans Wake

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Robert Boyle <allocapnia@gmail.com>

Date:

2/11/2015 3:20 PM

 

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1.     PDF expanded version of NY Times column  

2.     [PDF]Vol. 30, No. 2, Spring, 2004 - The American Museum Of Fly ...

www.amff.com/...journals/2004-Vol30-N...

American Museum of Fly Fishing

one of his own projects, Robert Boyle chanced upon an oddly familiar photo of ... the American Museum of Fly Fishing-now, we bring you the ... The Museum and journal are not respons~ble for unsolic~ted manuscnpta, drawings, photographic.

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5.     You Spigotty Anglease? - The New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/books/.../bookend/booke...

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The New York Times

Jul 23, 2000 - BOOKEND / By ROBERT H. BOYLE. You Spigotty Anglease? .... from the original New York Times Review of 'Finnegans Wake,' May 7, 1939.

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