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T.S.Eliot's & the PALE FIRE; a huhrik (fwd)
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From: Vitaly Kupisk <kupisk@compuserve.com>
Perhaps our listserv's archives contain the discussion from a few months
ago, which started with my question on Hazel Shade's reading a poem with
words "grimpen", "chthonic", and "sempiternal" (my question: what's
"grimpen" and what's the poem) and proceeded to the poem being "Wasteland"
(or "Four Quartets", according to some opinions), "grimpen" referring to
the Grimpen Bog of "The Hound of Baskervilles", where the evil and crafty
lepidopterist lurks, plotting his next scheme.
John Shade does give a swift kick to the Eliot's poem, in passing.
A much more vague thought on huhriki:
If my memory serves me well, in his fine essay on ITAB by Robert Alter in
the TriQuarterly (?) honoring VN's 70th birthday, Alpert makes a bit of a
deal of some detail and landscapes of the book being akin to paintings of
the Dutch school. This old man, birdlike in his red silk pants and with a
tuft of hair, devouring fried birds, has a Bosch-like sensibility
somehow...
Vitaly Kupisk
Berkeley, California
kupisk@compuserve.com
Perhaps our listserv's archives contain the discussion from a few months
ago, which started with my question on Hazel Shade's reading a poem with
words "grimpen", "chthonic", and "sempiternal" (my question: what's
"grimpen" and what's the poem) and proceeded to the poem being "Wasteland"
(or "Four Quartets", according to some opinions), "grimpen" referring to
the Grimpen Bog of "The Hound of Baskervilles", where the evil and crafty
lepidopterist lurks, plotting his next scheme.
John Shade does give a swift kick to the Eliot's poem, in passing.
A much more vague thought on huhriki:
If my memory serves me well, in his fine essay on ITAB by Robert Alter in
the TriQuarterly (?) honoring VN's 70th birthday, Alpert makes a bit of a
deal of some detail and landscapes of the book being akin to paintings of
the Dutch school. This old man, birdlike in his red silk pants and with a
tuft of hair, devouring fried birds, has a Bosch-like sensibility
somehow...
Vitaly Kupisk
Berkeley, California
kupisk@compuserve.com