Subject:
Re: [NABOKV-L] Zolushka/incest tale?
From:
Carolyn Kunin <chaiselongue@att.net>
Date:
Fri, 3 Aug 2012 05:35:41 -0700
To:
Vladimir Nabokov Forum <NABOKV-L@listserv.ucsb.edu>

Despite the fact that Jansy refuses (refuses!) to deal with my question about A/Z incest, there is much here of interest. Of course I am aware of the homosexual strains in the Oedipus cycle, but in her post to which I was referring, lazy** Jansy only mentioned the Rex and not the cycle! But may I compliment her on the delightful expression 'pederast pre-history'?

In general - may I request contributers to this list to a) Clarify, b) Specify, and 3) please please please Make it easier to read! I too can be lazy and dislike having to decipher posts from Brazil and other Nabokovian outposts.

Notice as well, that J does not address my question regarding her incomprehensible description of my description of Maar's book Speak, Nabokov. I'm waiting ...

Carolyn, patiently

p.s. Levi-Strauss's 'Symbolic Machine'? ... cf. H Purcell's 'Wondrous Machine!' (= die Orgel, wissen sie)

p.p.s. Apropos of the last, 'Wondrous Machine!' is a movement in HP's final Ode to St Cecilia (Hail, bright Cecilia) -- Jansy kindly posted an article I wrote in '95 on her aeternus web site (googleable) -- that essay is the basis of my new theory that that ode is in actual fact Henry Purcell's suicide note. You read it here first!


**EDNote: The Editor deplores the use of such personalized epithets, but since this is an instance of light-hearted banter between friends who, for unknown reasons, cannot communicate directly by email, I am letting it through this one time.  ~SB
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