Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0015142, Thu, 19 Apr 2007 21:37:32 -0700

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Nabokov sighting: Rosenbaum on SkyMall
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The relevant paragraph follows below:

And the more one thinks of wings, not chicken wings or airline wings, or
even the wax wings of Icarus, or the waxwings of Nabokov, the more one
thinks rather of Andrew Marvell's phrase for the onrush of mortality,
"Time's winged chariot."

The rest is well worth reading and a terrific exploration of psychic freight
of poshlost: http://www.slate.com/id/2164517




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