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[NABOKOV-L] H.G.Wells and "Glory" (and several short-stories)
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Stan K-B [to "...a person mentioned to me Hugh G. Well's short-story "The Door in the Wall..."] To "a certain class of moviegoers, Green Door uniquely points to the classic 1972 film, Behind the Green Door! http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068260/ My friends tell me it has artistic merits beyond your typical skinflick. Not sure of the idiom's origin, but it seems to refer to the exotic antics people perform in private, antics you wouldn't expect from their respectable exterior curtains or doors."
JM: Always a tease? It seems that the reference to a "green door" from Well's story has plunged me into a Browningesque* rebound from "owl and bat" to "cowl and that"...
However, Stan, porn movies are a poor substitute for imagination. So here is a quote, to add a Nabokovian touch: "Imagination - the muscle of the soul..." (Cf. RLSK's Clare Bishop). Of course, right now, we're no longer referring to souls, but to inventive carnalities. On second thoughts, Nabokov is right: imagination belongs to the realm of the soul, only and I'll retain my own "green door."
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* - Following VN's play in "Ada" (part three,ch.3)
461.15"Your hat," he said, "is positively lautrémontesque-I mean, lautrecaquesque-no, I can't form the adjective."
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Stan K-B [to "...a person mentioned to me Hugh G. Well's short-story "The Door in the Wall..."] To "a certain class of moviegoers, Green Door uniquely points to the classic 1972 film, Behind the Green Door! http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068260/ My friends tell me it has artistic merits beyond your typical skinflick. Not sure of the idiom's origin, but it seems to refer to the exotic antics people perform in private, antics you wouldn't expect from their respectable exterior curtains or doors."
JM: Always a tease? It seems that the reference to a "green door" from Well's story has plunged me into a Browningesque* rebound from "owl and bat" to "cowl and that"...
However, Stan, porn movies are a poor substitute for imagination. So here is a quote, to add a Nabokovian touch: "Imagination - the muscle of the soul..." (Cf. RLSK's Clare Bishop). Of course, right now, we're no longer referring to souls, but to inventive carnalities. On second thoughts, Nabokov is right: imagination belongs to the realm of the soul, only and I'll retain my own "green door."
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* - Following VN's play in "Ada" (part three,ch.3)
461.15"Your hat," he said, "is positively lautrémontesque-I mean, lautrecaquesque-no, I can't form the adjective."
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