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Fw: [NABOKV-L] THOUGHTS: Kinbote; caveman and auroch.
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Matt Roth, adding another item to the exchanges bt. Friedman and Kunin, wrote:
"I might also remind everyone of the reference to "Colonel Starbottle" (Starover Blue), which might lead us to Bret Harte's story "Colonel Starbottle's Client," also concerned with kinbote." Here is one more (out of the blue) item produced by a faint verbal ressonance bt starover blue and starbottle:
Wasn't Vladimir Nabokov's father's favorite flower the "bluebottle"?
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Jansy: I forgot to emphasize another curious ressonance bt. CK's paragraph and HH's, quoted in the last posting:
Pale Fire: we undo the work of the ages, the history of the gradual elaboration of poetical description and construction, from the treeman to Browning, from the caveman to Keats...
Lolita: I am thinking of aurochs and angels, the secret of durable pigments, prophetic sonnets, the refuge of art.
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Gradus movements might have been related to a treeman's or a swinging ape's ("swinging down to the foot of the page from line to line as from branch to branch"); Kinbote heard himself described as "an elephantine tick; a king-sized botfly; a macaco worm; the monstrous parasite of a genius." and the words "macaco worm, a parasite of a genius" might serve to place CK on the initial steps of the evolutionary ladder. Even Shade, by implication ( parasite of a genius, of extinct mammoths).
We read in Pale Fire's "Index", under Botkin: "king-bot, maggot of extinct fly that once bred in mammoths and is thought to have hastened their phylogenetic end." Another information ( a Google dic): macaco: n. species of lemur and S American monkey; the macaco worm is the parasitic larva of the South American botfly.
The passage from mammoths, as represented in various cave-drawings, into angels, brings up the idea of a representational hierarchy and not an archeologic-biological evolution...
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"I might also remind everyone of the reference to "Colonel Starbottle" (Starover Blue), which might lead us to Bret Harte's story "Colonel Starbottle's Client," also concerned with kinbote." Here is one more (out of the blue) item produced by a faint verbal ressonance bt starover blue and starbottle:
Wasn't Vladimir Nabokov's father's favorite flower the "bluebottle"?
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Jansy: I forgot to emphasize another curious ressonance bt. CK's paragraph and HH's, quoted in the last posting:
Pale Fire: we undo the work of the ages, the history of the gradual elaboration of poetical description and construction, from the treeman to Browning, from the caveman to Keats...
Lolita: I am thinking of aurochs and angels, the secret of durable pigments, prophetic sonnets, the refuge of art.
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Gradus movements might have been related to a treeman's or a swinging ape's ("swinging down to the foot of the page from line to line as from branch to branch"); Kinbote heard himself described as "an elephantine tick; a king-sized botfly; a macaco worm; the monstrous parasite of a genius." and the words "macaco worm, a parasite of a genius" might serve to place CK on the initial steps of the evolutionary ladder. Even Shade, by implication ( parasite of a genius, of extinct mammoths).
We read in Pale Fire's "Index", under Botkin: "king-bot, maggot of extinct fly that once bred in mammoths and is thought to have hastened their phylogenetic end." Another information ( a Google dic): macaco: n. species of lemur and S American monkey; the macaco worm is the parasitic larva of the South American botfly.
The passage from mammoths, as represented in various cave-drawings, into angels, brings up the idea of a representational hierarchy and not an archeologic-biological evolution...
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