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Suellen, I care. Can you give me the Moby source? Thanks, Fran Assa
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 09:55:06 -0600From: suellen.stringer-hye@VANDERBILT.EDUSubject: Re: [NABOKV-L] QUERY: Bend Sinister poem?To: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
If anyone really cares, I actually tracked the lines down to their sources in MD at one time for an article I was writing about Melville and VN…
---Suellen
From: Vladimir Nabokov Forum [mailto:NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU] On Behalf Of Matthew RothSent: Tuesday, December 16, 2008 9:34 AMTo: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDUSubject: Re: [NABOKV-L] QUERY: Bend Sinister poem?
Tim,
Perhaps you are thinking of the Zemblan translation of T of A? That's in Kinbote's note to line 39. If it's really BS you mean, are you thinking of the poem in chapter 12, which VN made by combining lines from Moby Dick?
A curious sight--these bashful bears
These timid warrior whalemen
And now the time of the tide has come;
The ship casts off her cables
It is not shown on any map;
True places never are
This lovely light, it lights not me;
All loveliness is anguish--
MR>>> On 12/15/2008 at 10:43 PM, in message <4946DD7702000012002EC1E4@dudley.holycross.edu>, NABOKV-L <NABOKV-L@HOLYCROSS.EDU> wrote:
Anybody have a copy of Bend Sinister handy? There's a poem I wanted toquote -- I remember it as some version of the Shakespeare Timon ofAthens passage from which the title of Pale Fire is drawn -- "The moonis an arrant thief" -- but different. Can someone help me? Thanks!--Tim Henderson
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