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Doryphoric note:
³Finnegan¹s Wake² is the ballad; Joyce¹s ³novel² is ³Finnegans Wake.²
skb
On 1/4/06 3:35 am, "Nabokv-L" <nabokv-l@UTK.EDU> wrote:
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> Subject: Re: [NABOKV-L] [Fwd: Musings on Robert Southey's roast rat in PALE
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> Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 12:55:42 -0800 (PST)
> From: Jerry Friedman <jerry_friedman@yahoo.com>
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> To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
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> As the story about the bishop is a mere legend, I don't know
> whether we can ascribe anger at him to VN.
>
> I imagine that Southey wrote about the German bishop
> because it's a striking, grotesque story and maybe because
> of his (Southey's) proletarian sympathies. It's a warning
> to those who oppress the sans-culottes.
>
> Has anyone mentioned that S. is also in the note to line 12,
> on the subject of his Lingo-Grande as a forerunner of
> /Finnegan's Wake/? I know nothing about Lingo-Grande.
>
> I must admit I've always just been stumped by both Stumparumper
> and the rats, and didn't particularly "think of the Bishop of
> Bingen/ In his Mouse-Tower on the Rhine!" (Longfellow). To add
> to what other people have suggested, I suspect one connection
> between Southey and Prof. H. is that S.'s ballad is a definitive
> example of poetic justice. Kinbote in his "just anger" may
> be thinking that when Prof. H. reads the disparagement of
> "English Lit", in a poem he was so concerned about, he'll suffer
> poetic justice.
>
> Jerry Friedman
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³Finnegan¹s Wake² is the ballad; Joyce¹s ³novel² is ³Finnegans Wake.²
skb
On 1/4/06 3:35 am, "Nabokv-L" <nabokv-l@UTK.EDU> wrote:
>
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [NABOKV-L] [Fwd: Musings on Robert Southey's roast rat in PALE
> FIRE]
> Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 12:55:42 -0800 (PST)
> From: Jerry Friedman <jerry_friedman@yahoo.com>
> <mailto:jerry_friedman@yahoo.com>
> To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
> <mailto:NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
> As the story about the bishop is a mere legend, I don't know
> whether we can ascribe anger at him to VN.
>
> I imagine that Southey wrote about the German bishop
> because it's a striking, grotesque story and maybe because
> of his (Southey's) proletarian sympathies. It's a warning
> to those who oppress the sans-culottes.
>
> Has anyone mentioned that S. is also in the note to line 12,
> on the subject of his Lingo-Grande as a forerunner of
> /Finnegan's Wake/? I know nothing about Lingo-Grande.
>
> I must admit I've always just been stumped by both Stumparumper
> and the rats, and didn't particularly "think of the Bishop of
> Bingen/ In his Mouse-Tower on the Rhine!" (Longfellow). To add
> to what other people have suggested, I suspect one connection
> between Southey and Prof. H. is that S.'s ballad is a definitive
> example of poetic justice. Kinbote in his "just anger" may
> be thinking that when Prof. H. reads the disparagement of
> "English Lit", in a poem he was so concerned about, he'll suffer
> poetic justice.
>
> Jerry Friedman
>
> Search the Nabokv-L archive at UCSB
> <http://listserv.ucsb.edu/archives/nabokv-l.html>
>
> Contact the Editors <mailto:nabokv-l@utk.edu,nabokv-l@holycross.edu>
>
> All private editorial communications, without exception, are read by both
> co-editors.
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