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G. Lipon: Has anyone considered Allan Ginsberg as a model for
Kinbote?...Lowell, I think, had said that Ginsberg influenced him to loosen
his style of verse, prosody.
Idle perhaps, but a little arresting to think of Lowell and Ginsberg as the
models for Shade and Kinbote!
JM: Google has novelties related to Kinbote's beaver (explored at the list
many months ago).
Even though Nabokov wasn't an Oxford man in the twenties, it might be of
interest because the game travelled over to America (there's an image of a
"literary" critic, William Empson, as a noted beaver).
Here are the items: Beaver!
<http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/brainiac/2010/05/beaver_the_bear.ht
ml> (The beard game)
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ml?comments=all#readerComm> Comments (0) Posted by Christopher Shea May 13,
2010 04:39 PM
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Bookride, a rare-books site,
<http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/brainiac/2010/05/Hughes,%20the%20he
avily%20bearded%20Chief%20Justice%20of%20the%20Supreme%20Court%20%20%28left%
29.%20No%20one%20was%20exempt.> calls for a revival of "Beaver!", a game
that evidently got its start among the Oxbridge set in the 1920s. Young men
would stroll the streets and cry out that word when they saw a bearded man
(or, in rare cases, woman--in which case the claim was lodged sotto voce).
There was an anti-establishment flavor to the escapade, as beards were seen
as a sign of pomposity and fustiness. The game even jumped the ocean:
Helen Hayes described being appalled by her husband Charles Macarthur and a
friend of his, who were both old enough to know better, playing the game
once at the expense of Charles Evans Hughes, the heavily bearded Chief
Justice of the Supreme Court. No one was exempt.
The game was scored like tennis, with deductions for false identifications.
And it was popular enough, at least in England, that it drove not a few
beavers back to the razor. The British author Mark Bence-Jones, author of a
wide range of nonfiction books, who died this year, at age 80, had long
called for a revival of the game--unsuccessfully. Bookride now steps forward
to carry the torch.
Btw: in connection to Tamerlane and elephants, I finally heard the
recording of Haendel's "Tamerlano" and, sure enough, we have Princess Irene
arriving on a gawdy blue elephant, only to be rejected by her former suitor,
Tamerlano himself.
After I read about Tamerlane's victory over the Indian army, his cruelty and
ambition, the libretto for Haendel's production appears as a very abstract,
"aesthetized" cry for liberty (very successful as a work of Art).
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Kinbote?...Lowell, I think, had said that Ginsberg influenced him to loosen
his style of verse, prosody.
Idle perhaps, but a little arresting to think of Lowell and Ginsberg as the
models for Shade and Kinbote!
JM: Google has novelties related to Kinbote's beaver (explored at the list
many months ago).
Even though Nabokov wasn't an Oxford man in the twenties, it might be of
interest because the game travelled over to America (there's an image of a
"literary" critic, William Empson, as a noted beaver).
Here are the items: Beaver!
<http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/brainiac/2010/05/beaver_the_bear.ht
ml> (The beard game)
<javascript:void(0)> E-mail|
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ml> Link|
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ml?comments=all#readerComm> Comments (0) Posted by Christopher Shea May 13,
2010 04:39 PM
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avily%20bearded%20Chief%20Justice%20of%20the%20Supreme%20Court%20%20%28left%
29.%20No%20one%20was%20exempt.> calls for a revival of "Beaver!", a game
that evidently got its start among the Oxbridge set in the 1920s. Young men
would stroll the streets and cry out that word when they saw a bearded man
(or, in rare cases, woman--in which case the claim was lodged sotto voce).
There was an anti-establishment flavor to the escapade, as beards were seen
as a sign of pomposity and fustiness. The game even jumped the ocean:
Helen Hayes described being appalled by her husband Charles Macarthur and a
friend of his, who were both old enough to know better, playing the game
once at the expense of Charles Evans Hughes, the heavily bearded Chief
Justice of the Supreme Court. No one was exempt.
The game was scored like tennis, with deductions for false identifications.
And it was popular enough, at least in England, that it drove not a few
beavers back to the razor. The British author Mark Bence-Jones, author of a
wide range of nonfiction books, who died this year, at age 80, had long
called for a revival of the game--unsuccessfully. Bookride now steps forward
to carry the torch.
Btw: in connection to Tamerlane and elephants, I finally heard the
recording of Haendel's "Tamerlano" and, sure enough, we have Princess Irene
arriving on a gawdy blue elephant, only to be rejected by her former suitor,
Tamerlano himself.
After I read about Tamerlane's victory over the Indian army, his cruelty and
ambition, the libretto for Haendel's production appears as a very abstract,
"aesthetized" cry for liberty (very successful as a work of Art).
Search archive with Google:
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