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James Studdard: The Cedar Waxwing is indigenous to the southeastern U.S. a very colorful bird, known for its waxy look and crested head. They fly in flocks of thousands and usually roost for the night around sundown. I remember, as a child, sitting in the woods, BB gun at the ready, only to be discouraged by a great downpouring of digested berries.
JM: Bird defensive bombings! A great story.
I'm happy to report that the campaign against the reflective windowpanes is moving along. It uses Nabokov's first two lines of Pale Fire in the posters.
A Danish friend told me that in his country black silhouettes of birds of prey are manufactured in series and sold: they are glued onto glass panes and, apparently, their shadow serves as a menace and it keeps birds away from any dangerous "false azure." It's also a reversion (PF's dangerous shadows, Shade's shadows used as a protective device) like the one found Alexey's quote from Khodasevich:
????????, ??? ?????? ???? ???????:
??? ??? ???? ???? ?? ??? - ? ????.
Happy who's falling down heels over head:
To him the world - if only momentarily - is different.
To be saved by a shadowy menace, to fall head over heels in love, or to bend down to look at the inverted world from in-between the legs, can be a revelation! (Nabokov, besides Mascodagama's setting the metaphors "upside down", returns to this new perspective in one of his Lectures on English Literature).
A.Sklyarenko's addition on Cora Day ( "Day being the time between sunrise and sunset, the name Cora Day made me think of Khodasevich's last book of poetry "??????????? ????" ("The European Night", 1928). When it is day in America (where Cora Day shot Murat), it is night in Europe (where Charlotte Corday stabbed Marat), and vice versa. In other words, American Day = European Night".) sent me back to Pale Fire's head of the department to which Kinbote belonged, Dr. Nattochdag ("Netochka"), Dr. Oscar N. was seens as a "distinguished Zemblan scholar," by Kinbote (but...wasn't he the Head of the English department?).
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JM: Bird defensive bombings! A great story.
I'm happy to report that the campaign against the reflective windowpanes is moving along. It uses Nabokov's first two lines of Pale Fire in the posters.
A Danish friend told me that in his country black silhouettes of birds of prey are manufactured in series and sold: they are glued onto glass panes and, apparently, their shadow serves as a menace and it keeps birds away from any dangerous "false azure." It's also a reversion (PF's dangerous shadows, Shade's shadows used as a protective device) like the one found Alexey's quote from Khodasevich:
????????, ??? ?????? ???? ???????:
??? ??? ???? ???? ?? ??? - ? ????.
Happy who's falling down heels over head:
To him the world - if only momentarily - is different.
To be saved by a shadowy menace, to fall head over heels in love, or to bend down to look at the inverted world from in-between the legs, can be a revelation! (Nabokov, besides Mascodagama's setting the metaphors "upside down", returns to this new perspective in one of his Lectures on English Literature).
A.Sklyarenko's addition on Cora Day ( "Day being the time between sunrise and sunset, the name Cora Day made me think of Khodasevich's last book of poetry "??????????? ????" ("The European Night", 1928). When it is day in America (where Cora Day shot Murat), it is night in Europe (where Charlotte Corday stabbed Marat), and vice versa. In other words, American Day = European Night".) sent me back to Pale Fire's head of the department to which Kinbote belonged, Dr. Nattochdag ("Netochka"), Dr. Oscar N. was seens as a "distinguished Zemblan scholar," by Kinbote (but...wasn't he the Head of the English department?).
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