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LOLITA: Is the name Swinburne related to "swine"? Later, in Ada, the link is made, thru the "Dolores" poem, but as "Burning Swine", but there is a "weight-lifting swine" (G.Trapp) that might be related to Dolores McCord's "weight-lifting champion" J.C.Heenan.
(I notice the slip of my pen in the preceding paragraph, but please do not correct it, Clarence) in The Murdered Playwright. Quine the Swine. Guilty of killing Quilty.
I believe one of the ladies was a disguised man [my static]. However - would there be a spare cot in 49, Mr. Swine?
"I think it went to the Swoons," said Swine, the initial old clown.
He was no longer the satyr but a very good-natured and foolish Swiss cousin, the Gustave Trapp I have mentioned more than once, who used to counteract his "sprees" (he drank beer with milk, the good swine) by feats of weight-lifting**
ADA
... was that Percy de Prey? It was[...] he had grown swine-stout.
Eros qui prend son essor! Arts that our marblery harbors: Eros, the rose and the sore,' I am ill at these numbers, but e'en rhymery is easier 'than confuting the past in mute prose.' Who wrote that? Voltimand or Voltemand? Or the Burning Swine? A pest on his anapest! 'All our old loves are corpses or wives.' All our sorrows are virgins or whores.
Darkbloom places "loves are corpses or wives" & Swinburne
p.288. all our old etc.: Swinburne*.
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* - Dolores (by A. C. Swinburne)
excerpt:
Give me place, even me, in their train,
O my sister, my spouse, and my mother,
Our Lady of Pain.
For the crown of our life as it closes
Is darkness, the fruit thereof dust;
No thorns go as deep as a rose's,
And love is more cruel than lust.
Time turns the old days to derision,
Our loves into corpses or wives;
And marriage and death and division
Make barren our lives.
**- Swinburne's lover, Dolores/Adah: In New York she became a poetess and the wife of Heavyweight Champion John C. Heenan. Her acting in Mazeppa brought her fame.
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BTW: In July 1, 1996, Joseph Piercy (U.Wolverhampton) addressed the list:
Dear Nabokovians
Could anybody help me with the following ?
1) Lucette quotes (as told be the not entirely reliable Vivian Darkbloom) a line from
Algernon Swinburne in "Ada" : "All our old loves are corpses or wives"
(penguin edition p288) does anybody know from which work this quote
derives.
2) Did Nabokov ever comment/ write about Swinburne at any point.
I am interested in this as Swinburne's elaborate alliterative epithets
have a peculiar Nabokovian flavour. "Dolores" being a fine example of
this.
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(I notice the slip of my pen in the preceding paragraph, but please do not correct it, Clarence) in The Murdered Playwright. Quine the Swine. Guilty of killing Quilty.
I believe one of the ladies was a disguised man [my static]. However - would there be a spare cot in 49, Mr. Swine?
"I think it went to the Swoons," said Swine, the initial old clown.
He was no longer the satyr but a very good-natured and foolish Swiss cousin, the Gustave Trapp I have mentioned more than once, who used to counteract his "sprees" (he drank beer with milk, the good swine) by feats of weight-lifting**
ADA
... was that Percy de Prey? It was[...] he had grown swine-stout.
Eros qui prend son essor! Arts that our marblery harbors: Eros, the rose and the sore,' I am ill at these numbers, but e'en rhymery is easier 'than confuting the past in mute prose.' Who wrote that? Voltimand or Voltemand? Or the Burning Swine? A pest on his anapest! 'All our old loves are corpses or wives.' All our sorrows are virgins or whores.
Darkbloom places "loves are corpses or wives" & Swinburne
p.288. all our old etc.: Swinburne*.
.................................................................................................................
* - Dolores (by A. C. Swinburne)
excerpt:
Give me place, even me, in their train,
O my sister, my spouse, and my mother,
Our Lady of Pain.
For the crown of our life as it closes
Is darkness, the fruit thereof dust;
No thorns go as deep as a rose's,
And love is more cruel than lust.
Time turns the old days to derision,
Our loves into corpses or wives;
And marriage and death and division
Make barren our lives.
**- Swinburne's lover, Dolores/Adah: In New York she became a poetess and the wife of Heavyweight Champion John C. Heenan. Her acting in Mazeppa brought her fame.
........................................
BTW: In July 1, 1996, Joseph Piercy (U.Wolverhampton) addressed the list:
Dear Nabokovians
Could anybody help me with the following ?
1) Lucette quotes (as told be the not entirely reliable Vivian Darkbloom) a line from
Algernon Swinburne in "Ada" : "All our old loves are corpses or wives"
(penguin edition p288) does anybody know from which work this quote
derives.
2) Did Nabokov ever comment/ write about Swinburne at any point.
I am interested in this as Swinburne's elaborate alliterative epithets
have a peculiar Nabokovian flavour. "Dolores" being a fine example of
this.
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