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TT-5 Misc. notes
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EDNOTE. Let us go on to TT-6, although backcasting is perfaectlt acceptable.
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A few odds & ends re TT-5
From Boyd's Library of America TT notes:
1. "Confections...soldes "Ready-made clothes. Our triumphant clearance
sale."
2. ding-dong bell (in re signal for approaching train) < _The Tempest_ Iii
396-401 "Full fathom five thy father lies..." ...Sea nymphs hourly ring his
knell / Ding-dong....
3. "Three photo poses" > become "Three risque poses"
4. "Boston Strangler" Alberto DeSalvo who strangled 13 women in
1962-64
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Idle Thoughts
NB that GREEN "alabasterette" statue --a foreglimpse of skiing Armande.
Note also the strangler convict "Armand Rave" perhaps echoing inter alia
French homosexual criminal writer Jean Genet who figures in VN-Edmund
Wilson letters. What is one to make of the similarity of his name to
Armande?
"Green" seems often associated with death. Note statuette and green curtain
on the dressing cubicle with dead P., Senior.
NB "retracing steps" = "trim metaphor" -- the latter together with its
Latinate calque "Tralatition" both etymologically mean "to bear across".It
is one of the many signals pointing to P., Sr.'s death.
The blonde in black mourning--angel of death?
D. Barton Johnson
NABOKV-L
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A few odds & ends re TT-5
From Boyd's Library of America TT notes:
1. "Confections...soldes "Ready-made clothes. Our triumphant clearance
sale."
2. ding-dong bell (in re signal for approaching train) < _The Tempest_ Iii
396-401 "Full fathom five thy father lies..." ...Sea nymphs hourly ring his
knell / Ding-dong....
3. "Three photo poses" > become "Three risque poses"
4. "Boston Strangler" Alberto DeSalvo who strangled 13 women in
1962-64
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Idle Thoughts
NB that GREEN "alabasterette" statue --a foreglimpse of skiing Armande.
Note also the strangler convict "Armand Rave" perhaps echoing inter alia
French homosexual criminal writer Jean Genet who figures in VN-Edmund
Wilson letters. What is one to make of the similarity of his name to
Armande?
"Green" seems often associated with death. Note statuette and green curtain
on the dressing cubicle with dead P., Senior.
NB "retracing steps" = "trim metaphor" -- the latter together with its
Latinate calque "Tralatition" both etymologically mean "to bear across".It
is one of the many signals pointing to P., Sr.'s death.
The blonde in black mourning--angel of death?
D. Barton Johnson
NABOKV-L