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Sent: Monday, February 02, 2004 11:21 PM
Subject: Glass as major treat to birds and ... Pale Fire
See below quote from Pale Fire in recent discussion on
Slashdot (News for nerds) web site
of AP article 'Expert says glass is major treat to
birds'
I attach the posting below in case it will be pushed down.
Note the low score of 2 and description 'Interesting' - believe me, not
many fiction books a rated on Slashdot that high! To this I want to add that I
had personally met few 'nerds' holding Pale Fire in high
esteem.
On my memory Nabokov's intentions were not yet questioned by
PETA people but given some of late postings on NABOKOV-L I would not hold
my breath.
Greetings,
George Shimanovich
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Poem (Score:2, Interesting)
by joebok (457904) on Monday February
02, @02:46PM (#8161678)
(http://www.schonbok.net/joe | Last
Journal: Thursday January
15, @06:02PM) |
From Pale Fire by V. Nabokov:
I was the shadow of the
waxwing slain
By the false azure in the windowpane;
I was the smudge
of ashen fluff--and I
Lived on, flew on, in the reflected sky.
And
from the inside, too, I'd duplicate
Myself, my lamp, an apple on a
plate:
Uncurtaining the night, I'd let dark glass
Hang all the
furniture above the grass,
And how delightful when a fall of
snow
Covered my glimpse of lawn and reached up so
As to make chair
and bed exactly stand
Upon that snow, out in that crystal
land!
Great book! |