Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0011284, Sun, 27 Mar 2005 08:28:04 -0800

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Dear List,

Another sort of reversal appears in "King, Queen,
Knave," and recalls the quotation from VN's Joyce
lecture that was discussed recently:

"If you have ever tried to stand and bend your head so
as to look back between your knees, with your face
turned upside down, you will see the world in a
totally different light."

The passage from "King, Queen, Knave" is:

"When, having returned home around ten, Franz was
proceeding along the corridor, he heard a muffled
tittering behind the landlord's door. The
door was ajar. He looked into the room as he passed.
The old landlord, clad only in his underwear, was
standing on all fours and, bending his grayish-ruddy
head, was peering through his legs at himself in the
cheval glass."

Best,
Jacob Wilkenfeld

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