Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0017477, Tue, 16 Dec 2008 09:55:06 -0600

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Re: QUERY: Bend Sinister poem?
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If anyone really cares, I actually tracked the lines down to their
sources in MD at one time for an article I was writing about Melville
and VN...



---Suellen



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Subject: Re: [NABOKV-L] QUERY: Bend Sinister poem?



Tim,

Perhaps you are thinking of the Zemblan translation of T of A? That's in
Kinbote's note to line 39. If it's really BS you mean, are you thinking
of the poem in chapter 12, which VN made by combining lines from Moby
Dick?



A curious sight--these bashful bears

These timid warrior whalemen



And now the time of the tide has come;

The ship casts off her cables



It is not shown on any map;

True places never are



This lovely light, it lights not me;

All loveliness is anguish--





MR

>>> On 12/15/2008 at 10:43 PM, in message
<4946DD7702000012002EC1E4@dudley.holycross.edu>, NABOKV-L
<NABOKV-L@HOLYCROSS.EDU> wrote:

Anybody have a copy of Bend Sinister handy? There's a poem I wanted to
quote -- I remember it as some version of the Shakespeare Timon of
Athens passage from which the title of Pale Fire is drawn -- "The moon
is an arrant thief" -- but different. Can someone help me? Thanks!
--Tim Henderson

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