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Re: TT-2: As Above, So Below (fwd)
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Date: Saturday, July 10, 2004 7:30 AM -0700
From: Keith McMullen <keithsz@sbcglobal.net>
To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
Subject: Re: TT-2: As Above, So Below
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> 8. The chapter ends with its hilarious survey of the hotel room and
> the real introduction of the "water theme" forecast by the novice
> "descendingnupright among the staring fish,"
> i.e. sinking into the past.
>
And descending upright into what is below the tension film is echoed in
monuments to be 'erected' to the flowing mystery of water. And according to
Webster:
shrine
Etymology: Middle English, from Old English scrIn, from Latin scrinium
case, chest
1 a : a case, box, or receptacle; especially : one in which sacred relics
(as the bones of a saint) are deposited b : a place in which devotion is
paid to a saint or deity : SANCTUARY c : a niche containing a religious
image
2 : a receptacle (as a tomb) for the dead
You are thinking correctly of the hillside 'stone,' but you do not
appreciate water sufficiently.
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D. Barton Johnson
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Date: Saturday, July 10, 2004 7:30 AM -0700
From: Keith McMullen <keithsz@sbcglobal.net>
To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
Subject: Re: TT-2: As Above, So Below
>
> 8. The chapter ends with its hilarious survey of the hotel room and
> the real introduction of the "water theme" forecast by the novice
> "descendingnupright among the staring fish,"
> i.e. sinking into the past.
>
And descending upright into what is below the tension film is echoed in
monuments to be 'erected' to the flowing mystery of water. And according to
Webster:
shrine
Etymology: Middle English, from Old English scrIn, from Latin scrinium
case, chest
1 a : a case, box, or receptacle; especially : one in which sacred relics
(as the bones of a saint) are deposited b : a place in which devotion is
paid to a saint or deity : SANCTUARY c : a niche containing a religious
image
2 : a receptacle (as a tomb) for the dead
You are thinking correctly of the hillside 'stone,' but you do not
appreciate water sufficiently.
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D. Barton Johnson
NABOKV-L