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Re: one-armed Baron in ADA
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Concerning the gambling involved and implied, is it not also a wordplay with
the slotmachine, a one-armed bandit, I wonder?
Best,
Hafid Bouazza
2011/6/19 Jansy <jansy@aetern.us>
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> *lexey Sklyarenko*: [At Marina's funeral] D'Onsky's son, a person with
> only one arm, threw his remaining one around Demon and both wept comme des
> fontaines. (Ada: 3.8)... Soon after his arrival in Kishinev ...Pushkin met
> Alexander Ypsilanti ... a Phanariot who served in the Russian army and lost
> his right arm in the Battle of Dresden (1813). Pushkin mentions безрукий
> князь (one-armed prince) in a poem written in Kishinev (c. Apr. 5, 1821) and
> addressed to Vasiliy Davydov ..."
>
> JM: There's also a one-armed man in "Lolita," Bill, a friend of the
> Schillers, inserted during Humbert Humbert's and Lolita's last encounter.
> Through the image of deformity Nabokov makes a reference to surrealism and
> pointillism: "He nursed his glass and, nodding sagely, replied: "Well, he
> cut it on a jagger, I guess. Lost his right arm in Italy." Lovely mauve
> almond trees in bloom. A blown-off surrealistic arm hanging up there in the
> pointillistic mauve. A flowergirl tattoo on the hand. Dolly and band-aided
> Bill reappeared. It occurred to me that her ambiguous, brown and pale beauty
> excited the cripple."
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the slotmachine, a one-armed bandit, I wonder?
Best,
Hafid Bouazza
2011/6/19 Jansy <jansy@aetern.us>
> **
> *lexey Sklyarenko*: [At Marina's funeral] D'Onsky's son, a person with
> only one arm, threw his remaining one around Demon and both wept comme des
> fontaines. (Ada: 3.8)... Soon after his arrival in Kishinev ...Pushkin met
> Alexander Ypsilanti ... a Phanariot who served in the Russian army and lost
> his right arm in the Battle of Dresden (1813). Pushkin mentions безрукий
> князь (one-armed prince) in a poem written in Kishinev (c. Apr. 5, 1821) and
> addressed to Vasiliy Davydov ..."
>
> JM: There's also a one-armed man in "Lolita," Bill, a friend of the
> Schillers, inserted during Humbert Humbert's and Lolita's last encounter.
> Through the image of deformity Nabokov makes a reference to surrealism and
> pointillism: "He nursed his glass and, nodding sagely, replied: "Well, he
> cut it on a jagger, I guess. Lost his right arm in Italy." Lovely mauve
> almond trees in bloom. A blown-off surrealistic arm hanging up there in the
> pointillistic mauve. A flowergirl tattoo on the hand. Dolly and band-aided
> Bill reappeared. It occurred to me that her ambiguous, brown and pale beauty
> excited the cripple."
> Temporary L-Soft Search the archive<https://listserv.ucsb.edu/lsv-cgi-bin/wa?A0=NABOKV-L&X=58B9943B29972AFF64&Y=nabokv-l%40utk.edu> Google
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