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TT-9 evening sun rays (fwd)
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EDNOTE.
My thanks to Akiko. I recall that W.W.Rowe also noted evening sun rays as
"otherworldly" following up on Boyd.
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Date: Sunday, August 08, 2004 11:50 PM +0900
From: Akiko Nakata <a-nakata@courante.plala.or.jp>
To: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
Subject: TT-9 evening sun rays
> EDNOTE. I have ahazy recollection that evening sun rays are marked as
> "otherworldly" in VN. Cf. Details of a Sunset?
Is this the scene on your mind?
From "Details of a Sunset," after Mark "dies":
The colors of the sunset had invaded half of the sky. Upper stories and
roofs were bathed in glorious light. Up there, Mark could discern
translucent porticoes, friezes and frescoes, trellises covered with orange
roses, winged statues that lifted skyward golden, unbearably blazing lyres.
In bright undulations, ethereally, festively, these architectonic
enchantments were receding into the heavenly distance, and Mark could not
understand how he had never noticed before those galleries, those temples
suspended on high.
In *Mary*, the protagonist sees the sunset through the coach window. Less
heavenly, but the scenery reveals something:
He [Ganin] lay down on his back on the striped cover of the couchlike seat
and through the open door and the corridor window he watched thin wires
rising through the smoke of burning peat and the dark gold of the sunset.
. . . and curious thoughts passed through his head, as though this had all
happened at some time before--as though he had lain there as now, his hands
pillowing the back of his neck, in the drafty, clattering darkness, and the
same smoky sunset had amply and sonorously swept past the windows.
Is the evening sun through fabric described anywhere??
Akiko
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D. Barton Johnson
NABOKV-L
My thanks to Akiko. I recall that W.W.Rowe also noted evening sun rays as
"otherworldly" following up on Boyd.
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---------- Forwarded Message ----------
Date: Sunday, August 08, 2004 11:50 PM +0900
From: Akiko Nakata <a-nakata@courante.plala.or.jp>
To: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
Subject: TT-9 evening sun rays
> EDNOTE. I have ahazy recollection that evening sun rays are marked as
> "otherworldly" in VN. Cf. Details of a Sunset?
Is this the scene on your mind?
From "Details of a Sunset," after Mark "dies":
The colors of the sunset had invaded half of the sky. Upper stories and
roofs were bathed in glorious light. Up there, Mark could discern
translucent porticoes, friezes and frescoes, trellises covered with orange
roses, winged statues that lifted skyward golden, unbearably blazing lyres.
In bright undulations, ethereally, festively, these architectonic
enchantments were receding into the heavenly distance, and Mark could not
understand how he had never noticed before those galleries, those temples
suspended on high.
In *Mary*, the protagonist sees the sunset through the coach window. Less
heavenly, but the scenery reveals something:
He [Ganin] lay down on his back on the striped cover of the couchlike seat
and through the open door and the corridor window he watched thin wires
rising through the smoke of burning peat and the dark gold of the sunset.
. . . and curious thoughts passed through his head, as though this had all
happened at some time before--as though he had lain there as now, his hands
pillowing the back of his neck, in the drafty, clattering darkness, and the
same smoky sunset had amply and sonorously swept past the windows.
Is the evening sun through fabric described anywhere??
Akiko
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D. Barton Johnson
NABOKV-L