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Re: [NABOKOV-L] Boris Vian and Nabokovian wordplay
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Hafid Bouazza: Still searching for 'a limp spectre' in Nabokov's works, I stumbled upon a... green door! In fact, green doors. They are the doors of Elphinstone hospital (the poet Oliver Goldsmith was born near Elphin, Ireland) : "- and Aurora had hardly 'warmed her hands,' as the pickers of lavender say in the country of my birth, when I found myself trying to get into that dungeon again, knocking upon its green doors, breakfastless, stool-less, in despair. "(Lolita, II:22)
JM: This interesting example from "Lolita" offers, for the first time, the idea of "knocking upon a green door." In "ADA" there are phantom fists knocking against a green door (Ada, I ch.24: "Van was already unlocking the door — the green door against which they were to bang so often with boneless fists in their later separate dreams." ) The additional "knocking" is an important element and it had escaped my attention until now, inspite of Bob Dylan's "knockin' on heaven's door" and all the real green ones)
My books are, unfortunately, heavily underlined with what I want to find again because this makes it almost impossible for me to find what is new or unprecedent. I created for myself a "prejudiced trap." Hafid, did you try to explore "The Eye"? That's a good place for posthumous apparitions.
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JM: This interesting example from "Lolita" offers, for the first time, the idea of "knocking upon a green door." In "ADA" there are phantom fists knocking against a green door (Ada, I ch.24: "Van was already unlocking the door — the green door against which they were to bang so often with boneless fists in their later separate dreams." ) The additional "knocking" is an important element and it had escaped my attention until now, inspite of Bob Dylan's "knockin' on heaven's door" and all the real green ones)
My books are, unfortunately, heavily underlined with what I want to find again because this makes it almost impossible for me to find what is new or unprecedent. I created for myself a "prejudiced trap." Hafid, did you try to explore "The Eye"? That's a good place for posthumous apparitions.
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