Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0011160, Sun, 6 Mar 2005 14:31:12 -0800

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Re: Fw: Re: Two notes on ADA (pet) and winds going free
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Actually, the "Aeolus" chapter of "Ulysses" (set in the Ormond Hotel) does
not appear to contain a specific allusion in so many words to "winds going
free". But the theme is strongly present. The chapter contains the intelligence
that (p. 274): "Pwee! A wee little wind piped eeee. In Bloom's little wee." And
this develops into the culminating passage (p. 276): "Prrprr. / Must be the
bur. / Fff. Oo. Rrpr. ... / ... / Pprrpffrrppff. / Done."

The "Penelope" chapter, however, has Molly, at the end of the fifth of its
eight long paragraphs, thinking (p. 722-3): "... yes Ill sing Winds that blow
from the south ... I feel some wind in me ... I wish hed sleep in some bed by
himself with his cold feet on me give us room even to let a fart God or do the
least thing better yes hold them like that a bit on my side ...". And at the
start of the sixth paragraph (p. 723): "that was a relief wherever you be let
your wind go free".

[References to 1958 reprint of First Unlimited Edition, Bodley Head, 1937.]

Anthony Stadlen

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