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Eric Hyman: My guess is that it might be irony, that is, VN is hinting that
green-eyed cats is a literary cliché. Another possibility that the
perception of green eyes is a subjective reflex of the ambient
lightingcertainly a familiar theme in Nabokov. Ive been around cats all
my life and have yet to see a green-eyed one (Siamese cats really do,
however, have blue eyes).
Jansy: Irony hadnt occurred to me as a means to indicate a literary cliché
but you must be right! Perhaps if Id heard VN say the words I might have
felt it from the start. Thanks, Eric.
(One of my black cats, Mimi, has green eyes, Maracujá has them
honey-colored and Pipoca, a ragdoll, is blue-eyed)
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JM: In Vladimir Nabokovs Lectures on Literature, on the chapter on
Dickens (Bowers,p.120), he notes that Krook comes slowly up, with his
green-eyed cat following at his heels he adds: All cats have green eyes
but notice how green these eyes are owing to the lighted candle slowly
ascending the stairs. [ ] In RLSK we encounter a vanishing cat with
celadon eyes ( a bluish/green/grey colored porcelain), so it seems that VN
admitted variations in feline eye-coloring. Why then did VN assure his
students that all cats have green eyes?
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green-eyed cats is a literary cliché. Another possibility that the
perception of green eyes is a subjective reflex of the ambient
lightingcertainly a familiar theme in Nabokov. Ive been around cats all
my life and have yet to see a green-eyed one (Siamese cats really do,
however, have blue eyes).
Jansy: Irony hadnt occurred to me as a means to indicate a literary cliché
but you must be right! Perhaps if Id heard VN say the words I might have
felt it from the start. Thanks, Eric.
(One of my black cats, Mimi, has green eyes, Maracujá has them
honey-colored and Pipoca, a ragdoll, is blue-eyed)
..
JM: In Vladimir Nabokovs Lectures on Literature, on the chapter on
Dickens (Bowers,p.120), he notes that Krook comes slowly up, with his
green-eyed cat following at his heels he adds: All cats have green eyes
but notice how green these eyes are owing to the lighted candle slowly
ascending the stairs. [ ] In RLSK we encounter a vanishing cat with
celadon eyes ( a bluish/green/grey colored porcelain), so it seems that VN
admitted variations in feline eye-coloring. Why then did VN assure his
students that all cats have green eyes?
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