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Stan Kelly-Bootle:Two fatidic deaths on August 17, 2010 with interesting VN
connections. Eugene MacDonnell (1926 - 2010), American computer-science
Pioneer. the Moon is Free, no longer a slavish Pale Fire. Also note that
Frost out-Shades JS's rumbling aabbccdd Heroics and, some say, simplistic
circularity (line 1,000 -> line 1?) with an advanced two-fold symmetry:
reflective poetry with reflective prosody. Better known to VN-listers,
perhaps, is Sir Frank Kermode (1919-2010) prolific, free-thinking English
Literary Critic. He once declared "There aren't any Kermodians in the
World!" But, like Nabokov and Nabokovian, FK would be deep-down peeved if
the adjective had never cropped up!
PS: more fatidics! My first great-grand-child, a daughter, Elise Rose Coxon,
was born August 12th, 2010. Same virgulean date as my mother ADA! My prezzie
was CD of Brendel playing Beethoven's Bagatelle in A minor. Puzzle-lovers
will know WHY!
JM: Congratulations great-grandpapa Stan, in the first place! (my
grand-daughter Elena's birthday is the same as my mother's and one day after
a different Elena's son, Vladimir (April 24). Also, thank you for allowing
me to handle a devilish dic!
Fatefully or not, it was one of the two books that surprised me yesterday:
"The Devil's DP Dictionary" by Stan Kelly-Bootle. The other, edited by
Everyman's Library, is "Comic Poems."
Stan's entry for "Ack" ( A signal indicating that the error-detection
circuits have failed), sent me to "Nack" and then I couldn't avoid
remembering Kinbote's offer to Shade (Everyman's PF, p.289) of a "knackel of
walnuts" and a glass of Tokay. Following Stan, nack ( A signal indicating
that all is lost) is a corruption of vulg. knackerel "castrated, rendered
knackerless, impotentated". Kinbote's nutty enticement is redundant, I now
see.
The pocket poets in Everyman's anthology was the first in which I found a
poem by Nabokov (couldn't find more information in the list of
acknowledgements to offer date or place of its original publication).
It's his anthropophagic* "A Literary Dinner" starting with:
"Come here, said my hostess, her face making room
for one of those pink introductory smiles
that link, like a valley of fruit trees in bloom,
the slopes of two names.
I want you, she murmured, to eat Dr. James."(Cf. op.cit. p. 135)
.................................
1. * Its canibalistic ritual is distinct from the Brazilian Modern Art
movement (1922) .Cf. <http://www.informaworld.com/index/782947106.pdf>
Utopia and Anthropophagy : Despite the fact that the anthropophagic movement
still finds followers, even among serious Brazilian and Latin American
critics, its role has ... www.informaworld.com/index/782947106.pdf
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connections. Eugene MacDonnell (1926 - 2010), American computer-science
Pioneer. the Moon is Free, no longer a slavish Pale Fire. Also note that
Frost out-Shades JS's rumbling aabbccdd Heroics and, some say, simplistic
circularity (line 1,000 -> line 1?) with an advanced two-fold symmetry:
reflective poetry with reflective prosody. Better known to VN-listers,
perhaps, is Sir Frank Kermode (1919-2010) prolific, free-thinking English
Literary Critic. He once declared "There aren't any Kermodians in the
World!" But, like Nabokov and Nabokovian, FK would be deep-down peeved if
the adjective had never cropped up!
PS: more fatidics! My first great-grand-child, a daughter, Elise Rose Coxon,
was born August 12th, 2010. Same virgulean date as my mother ADA! My prezzie
was CD of Brendel playing Beethoven's Bagatelle in A minor. Puzzle-lovers
will know WHY!
JM: Congratulations great-grandpapa Stan, in the first place! (my
grand-daughter Elena's birthday is the same as my mother's and one day after
a different Elena's son, Vladimir (April 24). Also, thank you for allowing
me to handle a devilish dic!
Fatefully or not, it was one of the two books that surprised me yesterday:
"The Devil's DP Dictionary" by Stan Kelly-Bootle. The other, edited by
Everyman's Library, is "Comic Poems."
Stan's entry for "Ack" ( A signal indicating that the error-detection
circuits have failed), sent me to "Nack" and then I couldn't avoid
remembering Kinbote's offer to Shade (Everyman's PF, p.289) of a "knackel of
walnuts" and a glass of Tokay. Following Stan, nack ( A signal indicating
that all is lost) is a corruption of vulg. knackerel "castrated, rendered
knackerless, impotentated". Kinbote's nutty enticement is redundant, I now
see.
The pocket poets in Everyman's anthology was the first in which I found a
poem by Nabokov (couldn't find more information in the list of
acknowledgements to offer date or place of its original publication).
It's his anthropophagic* "A Literary Dinner" starting with:
"Come here, said my hostess, her face making room
for one of those pink introductory smiles
that link, like a valley of fruit trees in bloom,
the slopes of two names.
I want you, she murmured, to eat Dr. James."(Cf. op.cit. p. 135)
.................................
1. * Its canibalistic ritual is distinct from the Brazilian Modern Art
movement (1922) .Cf. <http://www.informaworld.com/index/782947106.pdf>
Utopia and Anthropophagy : Despite the fact that the anthropophagic movement
still finds followers, even among serious Brazilian and Latin American
critics, its role has ... www.informaworld.com/index/782947106.pdf
Search archive with Google:
http://www.google.com/advanced_search?q=site:listserv.ucsb.edu&HL=en
Contact the Editors: mailto:nabokv-l@utk.edu,nabokv-l@holycross.edu
Visit Zembla: http://www.libraries.psu.edu/nabokov/zembla.htm
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Visit "Nabokov Online Journal:" http://www.nabokovonline.com
Manage subscription options: http://listserv.ucsb.edu/