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[NABOKOV-L] Zemblan sighting
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Nabokov's interview. (12) The Sunday Times [1969] brings "a disappointed lepidopterist's ditty"
It's a long climb
Up the rock face
At the wrong time
To the right place.
There is a blog called "North of Onhava" by a writer named James Greer, with a photograph of Lake Geneva with a few ducks (not swans), carrying exactly the same lines of Nabokov's ditty. I tried to find a direct reference to him or an indication for such a "zemblance," but got nowhere. Actually, the theme seems to be "nowhere", a mirror image of an utopia perhaps...
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It's a long climb
Up the rock face
At the wrong time
To the right place.
There is a blog called "North of Onhava" by a writer named James Greer, with a photograph of Lake Geneva with a few ducks (not swans), carrying exactly the same lines of Nabokov's ditty. I tried to find a direct reference to him or an indication for such a "zemblance," but got nowhere. Actually, the theme seems to be "nowhere", a mirror image of an utopia perhaps...
You can check it on:
http://jamesgreerbooks.blogspot.com/
Search archive with Google:
http://www.google.com/advanced_search?q=site:listserv.ucsb.edu&HL=en
Contact the Editors: mailto:nabokv-l@utk.edu,nabokv-l@holycross.edu
Visit Zembla: http://www.libraries.psu.edu/nabokov/zembla.htm
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