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Fwd: strange: "Organs of Locomotion" in ADA & Pnin
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EDNOTE. Thanks to Carolyn for recalling this beautiful VN description in which
the ear is viewed as "an organ of locomotion."
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Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 11:50:11 -0800
From: Carolyn Kunin <chaiselongue@earthlink.net>
Reply-To: Carolyn Kunin <chaiselongue@earthlink.net>
Subject: strange: "Organs of Locomotion" in ADA & Pnin
To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum
All this discussion recalls a passage in Pnin in which a physician's ear
applied to a young Pnin's ailing chest ambulates about in the manner of a
sea-creature of some sort. A wonderful image combining attributes of sound
and motion. Perhaps I can find it. . .
Ah, fortunately for me here is the passage on page 22 (and not 192):
"Then Timofey's torso was bared, and to it Belochkin pressed the icy nudity
of his ear and the sandpapery side of his head. Like the flat sole of some
monopode, the ear ambulated all over Timofey's back and chest, gluing itself
to this or that patch of skin and stomping on to the next."
Carolyn
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the ear is viewed as "an organ of locomotion."
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----- Forwarded message from chaiselongue@earthlink.net -----
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 11:50:11 -0800
From: Carolyn Kunin <chaiselongue@earthlink.net>
Reply-To: Carolyn Kunin <chaiselongue@earthlink.net>
Subject: strange: "Organs of Locomotion" in ADA & Pnin
To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum
All this discussion recalls a passage in Pnin in which a physician's ear
applied to a young Pnin's ailing chest ambulates about in the manner of a
sea-creature of some sort. A wonderful image combining attributes of sound
and motion. Perhaps I can find it. . .
Ah, fortunately for me here is the passage on page 22 (and not 192):
"Then Timofey's torso was bared, and to it Belochkin pressed the icy nudity
of his ear and the sandpapery side of his head. Like the flat sole of some
monopode, the ear ambulated all over Timofey's back and chest, gluing itself
to this or that patch of skin and stomping on to the next."
Carolyn
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