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Re: [NABOKOV - LIST] : signs and symbols, chapter three and four
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Isn't this a cinematic image? The light would pick out the bare elbows. The 'viewer' may not be able to see the clasped hands. Signs, a logic of images.
Piers Smith
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From: Anthony Stadlen <STADLEN@AOL.COM>
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Subject: Re: [NABOKV-L] [NABOKOV - LIST] : signs and symbols, chapter three and four
In a message dated 02/05/2008 11:15:29 GMT Standard Time,
barriekarp@GMAIL.COM writes:
"Across the narrow yard where the rain tinkled in the dark against some battered ash cans, windows were blandly alight and in one of the a black-trousered man with his bare elbows raised could be seen lying supine on an untidy
bed."
I have wondered about this, too. Could he have his hands clasped below his
resting head? But then why not say so?
Anthony Stadlen
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----- Original Message ----
From: Anthony Stadlen <STADLEN@AOL.COM>
To: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
Sent: Friday, 2 May, 2008 3:49:38 PM
Subject: Re: [NABOKV-L] [NABOKOV - LIST] : signs and symbols, chapter three and four
In a message dated 02/05/2008 11:15:29 GMT Standard Time,
barriekarp@GMAIL.COM writes:
"Across the narrow yard where the rain tinkled in the dark against some battered ash cans, windows were blandly alight and in one of the a black-trousered man with his bare elbows raised could be seen lying supine on an untidy
bed."
I have wondered about this, too. Could he have his hands clasped below his
resting head? But then why not say so?
Anthony Stadlen
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