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EDITOR's NOTE. For those with Dieter Zimmer's _A Guide to Nabokov's
Butterflies and Moths_ there is a splendid picture of the Atlas Moth on
the next-to-last page.
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Subject: RE: QUERY re Attacus moth
Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2002 19:53:02 -0500
From: "Johnson, Kurt" <JohnsonK@Coudert.com>
To: "'Vladimir Nabokov Forum'" <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
this is Kurt Johnson-- for online Attacus Moth pictures do this:
go to www.search.com
search "Attacus Moth"
Under the initial Web Pages cited you'll see one entitled Attacus
Moth...online gallery. Click on it.
that is more reliable than the direct URL which is
www.comnet.ca/~defayette/13.htm
which sometimes don't work.
Also, at www.search.com use any other link under Attacus Moth search
that may work for you.
The one I cite above has a glorious color painting of one species...
pretty typical of them all. The can be huge, like up to 8 or 10 inches
across and also in vertical dimension (forewing tip to hindwing tip).
KJ
-----Original Message-----
From: D. Barton Johnson [ mailto:chtodel@gte.net ]
Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2002 7:44 PM
To: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
Subject: QUERY re Attacus moth and chess in "Christmas"
stanislaw milkowsky wrote:
> This message was originally submitted by
stan_milkowsky@HOTMAIL.COM to the
> NABOKV-L list at LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU. ----------------- Message
requiring your
> approval (46 lines) ------------------
> Dear list,
>
> I│ve got a couple of questions that require your expertise as well as
> condescension to my ignorance.
>
> Both concern VN│s short story called (Christmas│ and I│m referring to the
> Vintage paperback (The Stories of VN. NY: Vintage International,
1997, which
> is paralleled by a Penguin edition in England, if I│m not mistaken). Page
> numbers are 131-36 (n646).
>
> # 1:
>
> (+on the wall, instead of a little lump of life, instead of a dark mouse,
> was great *Attacus* moth like those that fly, birdlike, around lamps
in the
> Indian dusk│ (p. 136)
>
> Could anyone refer me to an accessible illustrated guide that would
have a
> good depiction of the beast (badly needed) and a little something
about its
> ways and habits (optional)? I would greatly appreciate if you could point
> out a Nabokovian scholarly article (if there is one) that discusses the
> moth│s significance and all that.
>
> # 2:
>
> There│s a gaping whole in my knowledge of VN│s work and that│s a very
> superfluous idea of how chess work. In a note to the same story VN│s
says:
> (it oddly resembles the type of chess problem called (selfmate│
(n647). I│ve
> got a brief explanation of the type all right, but is there any way
to find
> a chessboard layout with a problem that would fall under the (selmate│
> category? And what is the trick again? ((1: checkmate forced by the side
> that is checkmated v called also suimate 2: a chess problem in which
suimate
> is required│ v Webster│s Third Unabriged, 1976 v not a particularly
helpful
> article somehow, at least in my case).
>
> And that is it. I would be exceedingly grateful if you could share
with me
> your information or refer me to appropiate books/sites.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Stan. Milkowsky,
> Nizhny-Novgorod
>
> _________________________________________________________________
> MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos:
> http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx
Butterflies and Moths_ there is a splendid picture of the Atlas Moth on
the next-to-last page.
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: RE: QUERY re Attacus moth
Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2002 19:53:02 -0500
From: "Johnson, Kurt" <JohnsonK@Coudert.com>
To: "'Vladimir Nabokov Forum'" <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
this is Kurt Johnson-- for online Attacus Moth pictures do this:
go to www.search.com
search "Attacus Moth"
Under the initial Web Pages cited you'll see one entitled Attacus
Moth...online gallery. Click on it.
that is more reliable than the direct URL which is
www.comnet.ca/~defayette/13.htm
which sometimes don't work.
Also, at www.search.com use any other link under Attacus Moth search
that may work for you.
The one I cite above has a glorious color painting of one species...
pretty typical of them all. The can be huge, like up to 8 or 10 inches
across and also in vertical dimension (forewing tip to hindwing tip).
KJ
-----Original Message-----
From: D. Barton Johnson [ mailto:chtodel@gte.net ]
Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2002 7:44 PM
To: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
Subject: QUERY re Attacus moth and chess in "Christmas"
stanislaw milkowsky wrote:
> This message was originally submitted by
stan_milkowsky@HOTMAIL.COM to the
> NABOKV-L list at LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU. ----------------- Message
requiring your
> approval (46 lines) ------------------
> Dear list,
>
> I│ve got a couple of questions that require your expertise as well as
> condescension to my ignorance.
>
> Both concern VN│s short story called (Christmas│ and I│m referring to the
> Vintage paperback (The Stories of VN. NY: Vintage International,
1997, which
> is paralleled by a Penguin edition in England, if I│m not mistaken). Page
> numbers are 131-36 (n646).
>
> # 1:
>
> (+on the wall, instead of a little lump of life, instead of a dark mouse,
> was great *Attacus* moth like those that fly, birdlike, around lamps
in the
> Indian dusk│ (p. 136)
>
> Could anyone refer me to an accessible illustrated guide that would
have a
> good depiction of the beast (badly needed) and a little something
about its
> ways and habits (optional)? I would greatly appreciate if you could point
> out a Nabokovian scholarly article (if there is one) that discusses the
> moth│s significance and all that.
>
> # 2:
>
> There│s a gaping whole in my knowledge of VN│s work and that│s a very
> superfluous idea of how chess work. In a note to the same story VN│s
says:
> (it oddly resembles the type of chess problem called (selfmate│
(n647). I│ve
> got a brief explanation of the type all right, but is there any way
to find
> a chessboard layout with a problem that would fall under the (selmate│
> category? And what is the trick again? ((1: checkmate forced by the side
> that is checkmated v called also suimate 2: a chess problem in which
suimate
> is required│ v Webster│s Third Unabriged, 1976 v not a particularly
helpful
> article somehow, at least in my case).
>
> And that is it. I would be exceedingly grateful if you could share
with me
> your information or refer me to appropiate books/sites.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Stan. Milkowsky,
> Nizhny-Novgorod
>
> _________________________________________________________________
> MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos:
> http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx