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EDITOR's NOTE. Mr. Glass is quite correct. The reason the quote works for
both PF & SM is that VN "encoded" the thematic anthemia that unify each of
the books in their indices, e.g. the rainbow motif in SM and, inter alia,
the Kinbote=Botkin business in PF.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Arthur Glass" <goliard@worldnet.att.net>
>
> Always with my antennae poised for echoes of Ovid, I find one in the
envoi,
> attributed to John Shade, that VN composed for the foreword to the revised
> Speak, Memory and subsequently rejected on the grounds of giving the game
> away vis-a-vis Pale Fire [v. Boyd, The American Years, p. 445]:
>
>
> Nobody will heed my index,
> I suppose,
> But through it a gentle wind ex
> Ponto blows.
>
> Ex Ponto suggests Ovid's place of exile on the coast of the Black Sea. But
> the wind ex Ponto would be bitter, not gentle for Ovid, while for VN it
> would evoke his memories of the Crimea celebrated in the short story
'Spring
> in Fialta.'
>
>
both PF & SM is that VN "encoded" the thematic anthemia that unify each of
the books in their indices, e.g. the rainbow motif in SM and, inter alia,
the Kinbote=Botkin business in PF.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Arthur Glass" <goliard@worldnet.att.net>
>
> Always with my antennae poised for echoes of Ovid, I find one in the
envoi,
> attributed to John Shade, that VN composed for the foreword to the revised
> Speak, Memory and subsequently rejected on the grounds of giving the game
> away vis-a-vis Pale Fire [v. Boyd, The American Years, p. 445]:
>
>
> Nobody will heed my index,
> I suppose,
> But through it a gentle wind ex
> Ponto blows.
>
> Ex Ponto suggests Ovid's place of exile on the coast of the Black Sea. But
> the wind ex Ponto would be bitter, not gentle for Ovid, while for VN it
> would evoke his memories of the Crimea celebrated in the short story
'Spring
> in Fialta.'
>
>