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Re: Fw: miscellanious comments from DN on Nov. 2004 postings
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EDNOTE. Akiko Nakata responds to DN's comments.
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Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 22:09:25 +0900
From: Akiko Nakata <a-nakata@courante.plala.or.jp>
Dear Dmitri,
Thank you for your comments and kind words on my notes. I may not have been
able to explain them exactly, but I was not trespassing on the birth places
of these texts. I just tried to suggest parallelisms between TT and
"Lance"--that the adventures of the protagonist could be read as those of
some knight in a medieval romance and that the text could be seen as a kind
of chart.
I had read in Brian's *VNAY* that VN's first impulse for "Lance" was your
passion for mountain climbing and that the story derived from your parents'
fears for your safety (207) and that HP was invented inverting you: "Dmitri
was a passionate mountain climber and an accomplished skier" (589). I think
the fall theme in TT might be also from your parents' fears of your falling
or sliding down while mountaineering.
Best wishes,
Akiko
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DN's response to Akiko's note:
Akiko, 11.20: My I correct something in your excellent notes about which I
have first-hand knowledge? In "Lance," the deliberate mountaineering terms
"crossing through a notch between two stars" and "attempting a traverse on a
cliff face so sheer and with such delicate holds" are a giveaway that, while
the story may be read on more than one level, including the medieval, its
inspiration was the anguish and the empathy my parents experienced when I
began climbing seriously and would depart, sometimes alone, sometimes into
uncharted territory.
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----- Forwarded message from a-nakata@courante.plala.or.jp -----
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 22:09:25 +0900
From: Akiko Nakata <a-nakata@courante.plala.or.jp>
Dear Dmitri,
Thank you for your comments and kind words on my notes. I may not have been
able to explain them exactly, but I was not trespassing on the birth places
of these texts. I just tried to suggest parallelisms between TT and
"Lance"--that the adventures of the protagonist could be read as those of
some knight in a medieval romance and that the text could be seen as a kind
of chart.
I had read in Brian's *VNAY* that VN's first impulse for "Lance" was your
passion for mountain climbing and that the story derived from your parents'
fears for your safety (207) and that HP was invented inverting you: "Dmitri
was a passionate mountain climber and an accomplished skier" (589). I think
the fall theme in TT might be also from your parents' fears of your falling
or sliding down while mountaineering.
Best wishes,
Akiko
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DN's response to Akiko's note:
Akiko, 11.20: My I correct something in your excellent notes about which I
have first-hand knowledge? In "Lance," the deliberate mountaineering terms
"crossing through a notch between two stars" and "attempting a traverse on a
cliff face so sheer and with such delicate holds" are a giveaway that, while
the story may be read on more than one level, including the medieval, its
inspiration was the anguish and the empathy my parents experienced when I
began climbing seriously and would depart, sometimes alone, sometimes into
uncharted territory.
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