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DN and anamorphosizing "Father's Butterflies"
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Dear Jerry,
Was that one of the texts set by Gesualdo di Venosa for his First
Volume of Madrigals for five unaccompanied voices? I recorded the volume
in Milan in the early 60s but don't recall this one. I'm a little
disappointed, by the way, that no one recognized the excerpt from the
previously unpublished second addendum to Dar, which my father had
conceived as an additional chapter but then suppressed. It is part of
the non-evolutionary theory of the fictional naturalist father of Fyodor
Godunov-Cherdyntsev, a fascinating text that I Englished for Nabokov's
Butterflies, wherein it is titled "Father's [i.e. the senior Godunov
Cherdynstev's] Butterflies." It contains a reference to the Kallima or
dead-leaf butterfly, as well as an image Jansy cited in another,
far-reaching context: the writhing root that nature(and nature alone)
could animate simply because it resembled a snake. So, whether it's
"L'amor..." or gravitation, I suggest you take it up with VN. I was
only the poor translator.
Dmitri
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Was that one of the texts set by Gesualdo di Venosa for his First
Volume of Madrigals for five unaccompanied voices? I recorded the volume
in Milan in the early 60s but don't recall this one. I'm a little
disappointed, by the way, that no one recognized the excerpt from the
previously unpublished second addendum to Dar, which my father had
conceived as an additional chapter but then suppressed. It is part of
the non-evolutionary theory of the fictional naturalist father of Fyodor
Godunov-Cherdyntsev, a fascinating text that I Englished for Nabokov's
Butterflies, wherein it is titled "Father's [i.e. the senior Godunov
Cherdynstev's] Butterflies." It contains a reference to the Kallima or
dead-leaf butterfly, as well as an image Jansy cited in another,
far-reaching context: the writhing root that nature(and nature alone)
could animate simply because it resembled a snake. So, whether it's
"L'amor..." or gravitation, I suggest you take it up with VN. I was
only the poor translator.
Dmitri
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