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Re: TT-6 green & death (fwd)
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Date: Thursday, July 29, 2004 9:02 PM +0100
From: Nick Grundy <nick@bsad.org>
To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
Subject: Re: TT-6 green & death
Mary McCarthy noted that, in Pale Fire, green appears to be the color of
death, and red the color of life[?]Green is pre-eminently the color of
seeming, too - don't know if that helps here. I'd say in Pnin, also, it's
more associated with pain and loss than death per se - the poems Liza
writes about the lovers she wanted to have are green and mauve; Pnins
life which hed give readily to Liza even after her infidelity is
described as a bouquet of flowers, or rather as wet stems cut [with] a bit
of fern in rain which makes grey and green mirrors of Easter day, for
instance.
Nick.
At 17:35 29/07/2004, DBJ wrote:
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Throughout VNs'oeuvre green,
emerald, and death are linked with death. This NOT to say "green" is
always
linked with death but sometimes is. Note the subsequent "reptile-green
ink"--nasty but not lethal.
D. Barton Johnson
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From Akiko
Thank you Don, for clarifying the link between green and death. The
"reptile-green ink" has no direct link to death here, but it might have in
Ch. 14.
HP volunteers to carry Armande's skis that are "weird-looking, reptile-green
things made of metal and fiberglass" (51). It is also another code between
the
hooker Giulia and Armande, and green and death, isn't it?
Akiko
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Akiko,
Quite right. I hadn't noticed the skis. Could you be more specific
about
the Giulia and green? Thanks, Don
D. Barton Johnson
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"Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose-petal down the Grand
Canyon and waiting for the echo." - Don Marquis
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D. Barton Johnson
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Date: Thursday, July 29, 2004 9:02 PM +0100
From: Nick Grundy <nick@bsad.org>
To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
Subject: Re: TT-6 green & death
Mary McCarthy noted that, in Pale Fire, green appears to be the color of
death, and red the color of life[?]Green is pre-eminently the color of
seeming, too - don't know if that helps here. I'd say in Pnin, also, it's
more associated with pain and loss than death per se - the poems Liza
writes about the lovers she wanted to have are green and mauve; Pnins
life which hed give readily to Liza even after her infidelity is
described as a bouquet of flowers, or rather as wet stems cut [with] a bit
of fern in rain which makes grey and green mirrors of Easter day, for
instance.
Nick.
At 17:35 29/07/2004, DBJ wrote:
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Throughout VNs'oeuvre green,
emerald, and death are linked with death. This NOT to say "green" is
always
linked with death but sometimes is. Note the subsequent "reptile-green
ink"--nasty but not lethal.
D. Barton Johnson
NABOKV-L
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From Akiko
Thank you Don, for clarifying the link between green and death. The
"reptile-green ink" has no direct link to death here, but it might have in
Ch. 14.
HP volunteers to carry Armande's skis that are "weird-looking, reptile-green
things made of metal and fiberglass" (51). It is also another code between
the
hooker Giulia and Armande, and green and death, isn't it?
Akiko
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Akiko,
Quite right. I hadn't noticed the skis. Could you be more specific
about
the Giulia and green? Thanks, Don
D. Barton Johnson
NABOKV-L
--
"Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose-petal down the Grand
Canyon and waiting for the echo." - Don Marquis
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D. Barton Johnson
NABOKV-L