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Carolyn Kunin: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Les Rayons et les Ombres ("Beams and shadows", 1840) is a collection of forty-four poems by Victor Hugo...The most famous poems are numbers 34 and 42, La Tristesse d'Olympio and Oceano Nox.
Jansy Mello: I'm sure you noticed that you mentioned "Oceano Nox". Here is the reference to it in ADA: "The sky was also heartless and dark, and her body, her head, and particularly those damned thirsty trousers, felt clogged with Oceanus Nox, n,o,x. At every slap and splash of cold wild salt, she heaved with anise-flavored nausea and there was an increasing number, okay, or numbness, in her neck and arms. " ( this dictation, with the spelling of n,o,x seems to be pointedly addressed to Violet Knox)
Carolyn Kunin searched for NL entries on parricide (besides the classic instance of Oedipus) she explored to connect little John Shade and his parents. There's a 2009 movie directed by F.F.Coppola, with parricide as a theme: "Tetro." I found nothing in it to widen the perspective into John Shade's oedipal motivations and Kunin's conjectures. In my opinion, Nabokov characters's perversions, criminal projects and murders is almost always completely explicit. I don't think there's any warranty that he'd repeat this same pattern in a hermetic or occult way. Carolyn's courageous ideas are always fascinating and she is very thorough when she searches into them so I'll keep an open mind. However, my experience when reading Nabokov feels close to his own negation of evil, as we find it in SO when he says that he has kicked out evil from the temple of his words, like the terrifying gargolyes of its façade. I almost believe (unwisely so) that this process is effective!
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Jansy Mello: I'm sure you noticed that you mentioned "Oceano Nox". Here is the reference to it in ADA: "The sky was also heartless and dark, and her body, her head, and particularly those damned thirsty trousers, felt clogged with Oceanus Nox, n,o,x. At every slap and splash of cold wild salt, she heaved with anise-flavored nausea and there was an increasing number, okay, or numbness, in her neck and arms. " ( this dictation, with the spelling of n,o,x seems to be pointedly addressed to Violet Knox)
Carolyn Kunin searched for NL entries on parricide (besides the classic instance of Oedipus) she explored to connect little John Shade and his parents. There's a 2009 movie directed by F.F.Coppola, with parricide as a theme: "Tetro." I found nothing in it to widen the perspective into John Shade's oedipal motivations and Kunin's conjectures. In my opinion, Nabokov characters's perversions, criminal projects and murders is almost always completely explicit. I don't think there's any warranty that he'd repeat this same pattern in a hermetic or occult way. Carolyn's courageous ideas are always fascinating and she is very thorough when she searches into them so I'll keep an open mind. However, my experience when reading Nabokov feels close to his own negation of evil, as we find it in SO when he says that he has kicked out evil from the temple of his words, like the terrifying gargolyes of its façade. I almost believe (unwisely so) that this process is effective!
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