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[NABOKOV-L] Glories and Parhelia: Nabokov quote in Wiki entry on
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Shakespeare appears to mention the phenomenon in his Henry VI, Part 3, written in about 1590, when he has Edward say, "Dazzle mine eyes, or do I see three suns?"
The poem Die Nebensonnen ("The Parhelia"), by Wilhelm Müller from his 1823-24 cycle Winterreise, was set to music by Franz Schubert. It begins: "Drei Sonnen sah ich am Himmel stehn..." ("Three Suns I saw in the sky").
Jack London wrote a short story in 1905 called The Sun-Dog Trail.
In the 1949 novel Mrs. Mike by Benedict and Nancy Mars Freedman, Sgt. Mike Flannigan, a Canadian Mountie, explains sun dogs when they are seen by his young
Bostonian wife for the first time. Claiming to have observed as many as sixteen of them together in the sky at a single time, he says the Indians believe they are "evil stars trying to kill the sun," but that they are actually caused by atmospheric conditions, and that when they appear "ten to one there's a blizzard by the morning."
A reference to 'parhelia' occurs in the Introduction to Vladimir Nabokov's 1962 novel Pale Fire:
The short (166) Canto One, with all those amusing birds and parhelia, occupies thirteen cards:
...and that rare phenomenon
The iridule--when beautiful and strange,
In a bright sky above a mountain range
One opal cloudlet in an oval form
Reflects the rainbow of a thunderstorm...
In the fifth novel of the Aubrey-Maturin series, Desolation Island, 1978, Patrick O'Brian writes:
"A visit to the cabin showed him the glass lower still: sickeningly low. And back on the poop he saw that he was by no means the only one to have noticed the mounting sea - an oddly disturbed sea, as if moved by some not very distant force; white water too, and a strange green colour in the curl of the waves and in the water slipping by. He glanced north-west, and there the sun, though shining still, had a halo, with sun-dogs on either side. Ahead, the aurora had gained in strength: streamers of an unearthly splendour."
In her popular historical novel The Sunne in Splendour, 1982, about Richard III of England, Sharon Kay Penman writes:
"Hastings laughed, too, and shook his head. 'Men do make their luck, Lady Margaret, and never have I seen that better proven than at Mortimer's Cross. For ere the battle, there appeared a most fearsome and strange sight in the sky.' He paused. 'Three suns did we see over us, shining full clear.'"
In a footnote it is clarified: "Phenomenon known as a parhelion, generally caused by the formation of ice crystals in the upper air." Two pages later, again mentioning the English king Edward IV, she adds: "Many, she saw, flaunted streaming sun emblems to denote her son's triumph under the triple suns at Mortimer's Cross."[12]
Sundog is the title of a 1984 novel by Jim Harrison.
The horror fiction writer Stephen King has a novella called The Sun Dog in his 1990 collection Four Past Midnight.
Jane Gardam at the end of her 2006 novel Old Filth has the main character, Edward Feathers, see a parhelion from the window of a plane at sunrise on New Year's Day: "Later he looked down upon a fat carpet of clouds and saw something he had never seen in his life before. Two suns stood side by side in the sky. A parhelion. A formidable and ancient omen of something or other, he forgot what.".
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Shakespeare appears to mention the phenomenon in his Henry VI, Part 3, written in about 1590, when he has Edward say, "Dazzle mine eyes, or do I see three suns?"
The poem Die Nebensonnen ("The Parhelia"), by Wilhelm Müller from his 1823-24 cycle Winterreise, was set to music by Franz Schubert. It begins: "Drei Sonnen sah ich am Himmel stehn..." ("Three Suns I saw in the sky").
Jack London wrote a short story in 1905 called The Sun-Dog Trail.
In the 1949 novel Mrs. Mike by Benedict and Nancy Mars Freedman, Sgt. Mike Flannigan, a Canadian Mountie, explains sun dogs when they are seen by his young
Bostonian wife for the first time. Claiming to have observed as many as sixteen of them together in the sky at a single time, he says the Indians believe they are "evil stars trying to kill the sun," but that they are actually caused by atmospheric conditions, and that when they appear "ten to one there's a blizzard by the morning."
A reference to 'parhelia' occurs in the Introduction to Vladimir Nabokov's 1962 novel Pale Fire:
The short (166) Canto One, with all those amusing birds and parhelia, occupies thirteen cards:
...and that rare phenomenon
The iridule--when beautiful and strange,
In a bright sky above a mountain range
One opal cloudlet in an oval form
Reflects the rainbow of a thunderstorm...
In the fifth novel of the Aubrey-Maturin series, Desolation Island, 1978, Patrick O'Brian writes:
"A visit to the cabin showed him the glass lower still: sickeningly low. And back on the poop he saw that he was by no means the only one to have noticed the mounting sea - an oddly disturbed sea, as if moved by some not very distant force; white water too, and a strange green colour in the curl of the waves and in the water slipping by. He glanced north-west, and there the sun, though shining still, had a halo, with sun-dogs on either side. Ahead, the aurora had gained in strength: streamers of an unearthly splendour."
In her popular historical novel The Sunne in Splendour, 1982, about Richard III of England, Sharon Kay Penman writes:
"Hastings laughed, too, and shook his head. 'Men do make their luck, Lady Margaret, and never have I seen that better proven than at Mortimer's Cross. For ere the battle, there appeared a most fearsome and strange sight in the sky.' He paused. 'Three suns did we see over us, shining full clear.'"
In a footnote it is clarified: "Phenomenon known as a parhelion, generally caused by the formation of ice crystals in the upper air." Two pages later, again mentioning the English king Edward IV, she adds: "Many, she saw, flaunted streaming sun emblems to denote her son's triumph under the triple suns at Mortimer's Cross."[12]
Sundog is the title of a 1984 novel by Jim Harrison.
The horror fiction writer Stephen King has a novella called The Sun Dog in his 1990 collection Four Past Midnight.
Jane Gardam at the end of her 2006 novel Old Filth has the main character, Edward Feathers, see a parhelion from the window of a plane at sunrise on New Year's Day: "Later he looked down upon a fat carpet of clouds and saw something he had never seen in his life before. Two suns stood side by side in the sky. A parhelion. A formidable and ancient omen of something or other, he forgot what.".
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