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In a message dated 8/24/2010 3:49:04 PM Central Daylight Time,
nabokv-l@UTK.EDU writes:
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>> Gary: for those unconvinced by possible physiognomical resemblances
>> between Ginsberg and Kinbote, I offer
>> tentative but plausible support for your suggested model:
>> ALLAN GINSBERG = LENIN¹S GRAB LAG. Here, Lenin is an obvious symbol for
>> the
>> Zemblan revolutionary regime overthrowing and hunting down King
>> Charles/Kinbote. It was Lenin, recall, who, according to wide scholarly
>> consensus, ordered the murder of the Tsar, his entire family, his doctor
>> and
>> three servants (Ekaterinburg, July 16, 1918. No, alas, Anastasia did not
>> survive.)
>> Both the delay and ultimate failure in assassinating Kinbote are clearly
>> embedded in the phrase grab lag. QED.
>>
>
Of course it could be Lenin's gal garb if we impute cross-dressing (why
not?) to Kinbote.
If you're looking for poets as models for CK, try Pound, who edited the
most famous long poem of the century and was full of megalomanic delusions.
And who also had a beard. And was a sort of exile. Hetero, but kinky.
In my essay in the forthcoming PF book from Gingko, I do mention Lowell as
a possible influence on VN's conception of JS's poem, mainly because
Lowell's most recent book at the time of PF's action was The Mills of the
Kavanaughs, much of which is in couplets (Life Studies appeared at about the time of
Shade's death and is mostly free verse and prose). If VN was going to set
his sights on a contemporary poet as one worthy of competing with, RL would
have been at the top of the heap (Frost was in his decline), and he and RL,
who had once been friendly, had fallen out badly over arguments about
translation.
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nabokv-l@UTK.EDU writes:
>
> >>
>>
>> Gary: for those unconvinced by possible physiognomical resemblances
>> between Ginsberg and Kinbote, I offer
>> tentative but plausible support for your suggested model:
>> ALLAN GINSBERG = LENIN¹S GRAB LAG. Here, Lenin is an obvious symbol for
>> the
>> Zemblan revolutionary regime overthrowing and hunting down King
>> Charles/Kinbote. It was Lenin, recall, who, according to wide scholarly
>> consensus, ordered the murder of the Tsar, his entire family, his doctor
>> and
>> three servants (Ekaterinburg, July 16, 1918. No, alas, Anastasia did not
>> survive.)
>> Both the delay and ultimate failure in assassinating Kinbote are clearly
>> embedded in the phrase grab lag. QED.
>>
>
Of course it could be Lenin's gal garb if we impute cross-dressing (why
not?) to Kinbote.
If you're looking for poets as models for CK, try Pound, who edited the
most famous long poem of the century and was full of megalomanic delusions.
And who also had a beard. And was a sort of exile. Hetero, but kinky.
In my essay in the forthcoming PF book from Gingko, I do mention Lowell as
a possible influence on VN's conception of JS's poem, mainly because
Lowell's most recent book at the time of PF's action was The Mills of the
Kavanaughs, much of which is in couplets (Life Studies appeared at about the time of
Shade's death and is mostly free verse and prose). If VN was going to set
his sights on a contemporary poet as one worthy of competing with, RL would
have been at the top of the heap (Frost was in his decline), and he and RL,
who had once been friendly, had fallen out badly over arguments about
translation.
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