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the original "saw" : .... should not Throw Stones.
young Eliot wrote his name as: T. Sterns ...
"foreigners ought to keep away from old saws."
Eliot and VN were both foreigners - transplants.
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live in glass house
live in Goldsworth house
Dun glas Home
Dun is '(dark), brown' in Old English, Irish, ...
Old Saxon dun (“brown”),
Old Norse dunna (“female mallard”).
Old Irish donn (“brown”).
Corinthians 13:12: "For now we see through a glass, darkly; ..."
____________________________
from Prof. Boyd's book: ([... the magic of artistic discovery])
And now, unveiled, the Toilet stands display’d,
[Toilet st] ands
in the (glass) mirror-image [T.S. Eliot]
(p.203) > note T. S. Eliot’s name in reverse in “toilet stood”—
On 9/10/17, Mary Ross <maryross.illustrator@gmail.com> wrote:
> WIP: "Art, Alchemy, and Failed Transcendence: Jungian Influences in
> Nabokov's Pale Fire
>
>
>
> Kinbote’s quip, “People who live in glass houses should not write poems”:
> of course this doesn’t make sense, as Shade’s reply shows. Or does it? The
> word “glass” is mentioned throughout Pale Fire. It is associated with
> windowpanes and mirrors, but above all with Gradus. Gradus, we’ve learned
> was implicated in the explosion in the Zemblan glass factory. We have also
> seen that Gradus is associated with the “nigredo” of alchemy. The alchemical
> processes take place in glass retorts, or alembics. Psychologically, one
> can imagine what would happen if one’s glass house (a house is a symbol of
> self) were to explode – death or insanity. A poet plays around with the
> potentially dangerous unconscious. Jung points out that the element mercury
> is potentially explosive, and had to be carefully contained in the
> alchemical process by sealed glass retorts.
>
> “As the vas Hermeticum of alchemy, it was ‘hermetically’ sealed (i.e. sealed
> with the sign of Hermes), it had to be made of glass, and had also to be as
> round as possible, since it was meant to represent the cosmos in which the
> earth was created.” (C.G. Jung, Alchemical studies, P.197)
>
> “…The alchemists were all for not letting Mercurius escape. They wanted to
> keep him in the bottle in order to transform him: for they believed, like
> Petasios, that lead (another arcane substance) was ‘so bedeviled and
> shameless that all who wish to investigate it fall into madness through
> ignorance’. The same was said of the elusive Mercurius who evades every
> grasp – a real trickster who drove the alchemists to despair.” (Jung,
> Alchemical Studies, The Spirit Mercurius, P.203)
>
> There is quite an amusing and interesting quote from Jung, about “poets who
> live in glass houses”:
>
> “It is evident that some alchemists passed through this process of
> realization to the point where only a thin wall separated them from
> psychological self-awareness…but with Faust Goethe came out on the other
> side and was able to describe the psychological problem which arises when
> the inner man, or greater personality that before had lain hidden in the
> homunculous, emerges into the light of consciousness and confronts the
> erstwhile ego, the animal man…He never really understood how dreadful was
> the Walpurgisnacht of the mind against which Christian dogma offered
> protection, even though his own masterpiece spread out this underworld
> before his eyes in two versions. But then, an extraordinary number of things
> can happen to a poet without having serious consequences.” (Jung,
> Alchemical Studies, CW, P. 90)
>
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young Eliot wrote his name as: T. Sterns ...
"foreigners ought to keep away from old saws."
Eliot and VN were both foreigners - transplants.
____________
live in glass house
live in Goldsworth house
Dun glas Home
Dun is '(dark), brown' in Old English, Irish, ...
Old Saxon dun (“brown”),
Old Norse dunna (“female mallard”).
Old Irish donn (“brown”).
Corinthians 13:12: "For now we see through a glass, darkly; ..."
____________________________
from Prof. Boyd's book: ([... the magic of artistic discovery])
And now, unveiled, the Toilet stands display’d,
[Toilet st] ands
in the (glass) mirror-image [T.S. Eliot]
(p.203) > note T. S. Eliot’s name in reverse in “toilet stood”—
On 9/10/17, Mary Ross <maryross.illustrator@gmail.com> wrote:
> WIP: "Art, Alchemy, and Failed Transcendence: Jungian Influences in
> Nabokov's Pale Fire
>
>
>
> Kinbote’s quip, “People who live in glass houses should not write poems”:
> of course this doesn’t make sense, as Shade’s reply shows. Or does it? The
> word “glass” is mentioned throughout Pale Fire. It is associated with
> windowpanes and mirrors, but above all with Gradus. Gradus, we’ve learned
> was implicated in the explosion in the Zemblan glass factory. We have also
> seen that Gradus is associated with the “nigredo” of alchemy. The alchemical
> processes take place in glass retorts, or alembics. Psychologically, one
> can imagine what would happen if one’s glass house (a house is a symbol of
> self) were to explode – death or insanity. A poet plays around with the
> potentially dangerous unconscious. Jung points out that the element mercury
> is potentially explosive, and had to be carefully contained in the
> alchemical process by sealed glass retorts.
>
> “As the vas Hermeticum of alchemy, it was ‘hermetically’ sealed (i.e. sealed
> with the sign of Hermes), it had to be made of glass, and had also to be as
> round as possible, since it was meant to represent the cosmos in which the
> earth was created.” (C.G. Jung, Alchemical studies, P.197)
>
> “…The alchemists were all for not letting Mercurius escape. They wanted to
> keep him in the bottle in order to transform him: for they believed, like
> Petasios, that lead (another arcane substance) was ‘so bedeviled and
> shameless that all who wish to investigate it fall into madness through
> ignorance’. The same was said of the elusive Mercurius who evades every
> grasp – a real trickster who drove the alchemists to despair.” (Jung,
> Alchemical Studies, The Spirit Mercurius, P.203)
>
> There is quite an amusing and interesting quote from Jung, about “poets who
> live in glass houses”:
>
> “It is evident that some alchemists passed through this process of
> realization to the point where only a thin wall separated them from
> psychological self-awareness…but with Faust Goethe came out on the other
> side and was able to describe the psychological problem which arises when
> the inner man, or greater personality that before had lain hidden in the
> homunculous, emerges into the light of consciousness and confronts the
> erstwhile ego, the animal man…He never really understood how dreadful was
> the Walpurgisnacht of the mind against which Christian dogma offered
> protection, even though his own masterpiece spread out this underworld
> before his eyes in two versions. But then, an extraordinary number of things
> can happen to a poet without having serious consequences.” (Jung,
> Alchemical Studies, CW, P. 90)
>
> Search archive with Google:
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>
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> Nabokov Online Journal:" http://www.nabokovonline.com
> AdaOnline: "http://www.ada.auckland.ac.nz/
> The Nabokov Society of Japan's Annotations to Ada:
> http://vnjapan.org/main/ada/index.html
> The VN Bibliography Blog: http://vnbiblio.com/
> Search the archive with L-Soft:
> https://listserv.ucsb.edu/lsv-cgi-bin/wa?A0=NABOKV-L
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Zembla: http://www.libraries.psu.edu/nabokov/zembla.htm
Nabokv-L policies: http://web.utk.edu/~sblackwe/EDNote.htm
Nabokov Online Journal:" http://www.nabokovonline.com
AdaOnline: "http://www.ada.auckland.ac.nz/
The Nabokov Society of Japan's Annotations to Ada: http://vnjapan.org/main/ada/index.html
The VN Bibliography Blog: http://vnbiblio.com/
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