Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0010631, Tue, 23 Nov 2004 17:21:22 -0800

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And more of same:

John

88.11 "The rubbish under a cracked seat" -- nice off color ambiguity!

89.3-4 "negotiated a pylon with a sudden rattle" -- Knowing Nabokov's
opinion of some other authore, why do I suspect another shot at
Faulkner (author of _Pylon_) here?

89.13 "PANTing in her merciLESS wake" -- more pantiless!

89.32 "golden NAPe or a huge kNAPsack" another (visual) echo

90.4-5 "the broken bridge which suddenly spanned the gap of time" --
clearly evokes the musical _Brigadoon_ which I saw in 1948:
this is the story of a bridge which appears once in a hundred
years and opens the way to another world, or rather another
time, enabling the hero and heroine to meet and fall in love,
and then disappears leaving the pair .... well I don't want to
spoil the ending. This is a version of a German tale called
inter alia, Germellshausen, or das geheimnesfolle Dorf,
a village that reappears every hundred years and then again
vanishes. Besides being a bit like the two worlds of _Ada_'
this business of passing from one world to another connects
this with the first and lst chapters of TT.

90.31-2 "He considered the remnants of a solitary picnic here"
-- These lines and the ones at the beginning of the next page
are strongly connected, of course, to the material of page
54-55, and those on 50-51, with picnic remnante etc, of
Hugh's earlier mountain climbing here. and another event that
occurred here too.

All for this time: Thanks for reading.

John

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