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[EDNOTE. This message from Jansy Mello includes at the end a correction that she submitted subsequently. – SES]
Dear List and William Dane,
CK wrote about PF as "the only novel I know that has an index even of any sort".
WD's answer began with: "Another VN work that ...." before he suggested a comparison of their indexes.
Would you include SM among VN's novels? ( I remember reading an explanation on this question, but I cannot now remember where ).
In a posting distributed on August 9,2006, discussing VN's "heraldic images" I found two examples of the use of the word "gules" in poetry ( in E. Cobham Brewer 1810-1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.) One came from Timon of Athens and another from Keats in "The Eve of Saint Agnes".
As a student, a long time ago, I was taught to pronounce "gules" like "jewels" ( and "gaol" as "jail").
Keats' poem speaks of "gules" as coming from the red reflections of the light of a wintry moon shining through stained glass. Colored windows are a recurrent theme in VN, particularly so in LATH.
If anyone thinks that VN might have been mentioning Keats and "his warm gules" then there may be something else to chase...
Would we find anything about Tamara in Fair Madeline's story? If so, how would it emerge in the guise of Zemblan jewels in Pale Fire?
Jansy
A correction ( once again!) :
When writing about "The Eve of St. Agnes" and "gules" I mentioned "red reflections of stained glass".
The Red Admiral - Vanessa atalanta - has two red gules, but these in Keats are merely "warm" ( they might be yellow, orange, red...).
Actually, in "LATH", VN mocks a translation from Keats' "a thing of beauty...", rendered as "Vsegda nas raduet krasivaya veshchitsa" in Russian.
But also there he also writes about parturition and "a frightening stained window at every turn - the afterimage of a wounded orifice" ...
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Dear List and William Dane,
CK wrote about PF as "the only novel I know that has an index even of any sort".
WD's answer began with: "Another VN work that ...." before he suggested a comparison of their indexes.
Would you include SM among VN's novels? ( I remember reading an explanation on this question, but I cannot now remember where ).
In a posting distributed on August 9,2006, discussing VN's "heraldic images" I found two examples of the use of the word "gules" in poetry ( in E. Cobham Brewer 1810-1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.) One came from Timon of Athens and another from Keats in "The Eve of Saint Agnes".
As a student, a long time ago, I was taught to pronounce "gules" like "jewels" ( and "gaol" as "jail").
Keats' poem speaks of "gules" as coming from the red reflections of the light of a wintry moon shining through stained glass. Colored windows are a recurrent theme in VN, particularly so in LATH.
If anyone thinks that VN might have been mentioning Keats and "his warm gules" then there may be something else to chase...
Would we find anything about Tamara in Fair Madeline's story? If so, how would it emerge in the guise of Zemblan jewels in Pale Fire?
Jansy
A correction ( once again!) :
When writing about "The Eve of St. Agnes" and "gules" I mentioned "red reflections of stained glass".
The Red Admiral - Vanessa atalanta - has two red gules, but these in Keats are merely "warm" ( they might be yellow, orange, red...).
Actually, in "LATH", VN mocks a translation from Keats' "a thing of beauty...", rendered as "Vsegda nas raduet krasivaya veshchitsa" in Russian.
But also there he also writes about parturition and "a frightening stained window at every turn - the afterimage of a wounded orifice" ...
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