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Re: library of america vol 3 (fwd)
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EDITOR'S NOTE. Below is Alexander Dolinin's response to one of the queries
presented by Brian Boyd. I offer another one on LATH! "Mr. Snooks is to be
found in H.G. Wells' satirical story "Miss Winchelsea's Heart" in _Twelve
Stories and a Dream_ (London, 1905). The schoolteacher heroine who rejects
Mr. Snooks' proposal out of snobbery over his name gets her just deserts
when he marries her friend and changes his name back to its elegant
ancestral form "Sevenoaks."
A new query involves the "Parluggian Owl" mentioned in ADA on
the second page of Part I, chptr 24. The bird is almost certainly the
_Aegolius funereus_, known as the "Boreal Owl" or "Tengmalm's Owl" (the
Russian "mokhnonogii sych"). The question is what does the "PARLUGGIAN"
mean or allude to?
From: Alexander Dolinin <dolinin@facstaff.wisc.edu>
>LATH
>98 "in the lonely hours of night," to quote A.K. Tolstoy
-- first line, fourth stanza of Aleksei Tolstoy's famous lyrical piece
"Sred' shumnogo bala, sluchaino, / V trevoge mirskoi suety, / Tebia ia
uvidel, no taina / Tvoi pokryvala cherty, etc." (1851; first publication
1857) set to music by Chaikovsky. The poem, in its turn, is full of
allusions to Pushkin and Lermontov.
presented by Brian Boyd. I offer another one on LATH! "Mr. Snooks is to be
found in H.G. Wells' satirical story "Miss Winchelsea's Heart" in _Twelve
Stories and a Dream_ (London, 1905). The schoolteacher heroine who rejects
Mr. Snooks' proposal out of snobbery over his name gets her just deserts
when he marries her friend and changes his name back to its elegant
ancestral form "Sevenoaks."
A new query involves the "Parluggian Owl" mentioned in ADA on
the second page of Part I, chptr 24. The bird is almost certainly the
_Aegolius funereus_, known as the "Boreal Owl" or "Tengmalm's Owl" (the
Russian "mokhnonogii sych"). The question is what does the "PARLUGGIAN"
mean or allude to?
From: Alexander Dolinin <dolinin@facstaff.wisc.edu>
>LATH
>98 "in the lonely hours of night," to quote A.K. Tolstoy
-- first line, fourth stanza of Aleksei Tolstoy's famous lyrical piece
"Sred' shumnogo bala, sluchaino, / V trevoge mirskoi suety, / Tebia ia
uvidel, no taina / Tvoi pokryvala cherty, etc." (1851; first publication
1857) set to music by Chaikovsky. The poem, in its turn, is full of
allusions to Pushkin and Lermontov.