Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0013699, Thu, 19 Oct 2006 10:18:58 -0300

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Re: DN and anamorphosizing "Father's Butterflies"
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" That was the last line of the Divine Comedy (and I should have written "l'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle") Not to pretend to learning I don't have, I admit I know the line only because Sara Teasdale quoted it in a poem", was JF's answer to Dmitri on "Dar" and "Father's butterflies".

By coincidence I had also just quoted Dante to Dmitri: ``S'io credesse che mia risposta fosse a persona che mai tornasse al mondo, questa fiamma staria sanza più scosse..." and I must also confess that I'm not learned in dantesque hells and got it (on purpose) from T.S.Eliot's epigraph to The Love Song of Alfred J. Prufrock.

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