Alexey Sklyarenko:Immediately after submitting my latest message to the
List I realized that Oscar Nattochdag (nicknamed Netochka) was a namesake
of Oscar Wilde...I recall that Carolyn Kunin
recommended to the List "The Picture of Dorian Gray" ... Sybil Vane, a
character in Wilde's novel who commits a suicide (as does her namesake in
VN's story The Vane Sisters)? The name of Shade's wife is also
Sybil, of course.
JM: Where's Carolyn, where Sandy
Klein? Où sont les neiges d'antan? Will there be novels by Nabokov (or
Fulmerford) on offer thru Kindlebooks and other marvellous modern
accessories?
You know, Alexey, as soon as you connected
Nattochdag and bisexual Wilde, something else occurred to me in relation to
"night and day." Couldn't these contrasting pairings also indicate, by
metaphor, Shade's, or Housman's "double-blade Gilette" and "double-edged"
bisexuality? If so, their reccurrence at various moments, should have
to be examined (Naimann, help?)