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veneration of icons was not something VN did;widespread esteem of AS may have been the norm,but not everyone is obliged to follow.We have a long history of hero worship as humans but strong individualists resist this, and note, rather the clay feet.
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From: Jansy Mello <jansy.nabokv-L@AETERN.US>
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Sent: Wed, Dec 18, 2013 12:31 pm
Subject: Re: [NABOKV-L] Dr Mertvago & Dr Swissair
Carolyn Kunin [ to Alexey*]"...:You should be ashamed - when I was growing up there wasno one more highly respected.[ ] p.s. As a physician working in"Lumbago" he was - well - a saint. But who cares? Not the shameless of thisworld, that's for sure.
Jansy Mello: Good for you, Carolyn.Although Albert Schweitzer doesn't really need that we take up arms to defendhim, as a Nabokov admirer I resent his often silly and biased "Strong Opinions"and appreciate it when some of our verbal genius's expostulations are brought upfor discussion.
Lumbago must refer to the lumbar pains VN often complained of or to his bile**, but it may suggest also Caribean Tobago (thereare diverse references to Trinidad and the Trinity student days inVN's works, or to the Caribean, the place of Demon Veen's fall) and DoctorMertvago refers, indirectly, to Pasternak's ("you man"parsnip"*) successful novel and, perhaps, even to another doctor writer,Tchekhov.
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* - Why not just call a turnip a turnip? /You mean"parsnip" (pasternak)?
Do you also despise that other nabokovian bete noir,Albert Schweitzer? Never heard of him (unless he is "Dr Swissair of Lumbago"mentioned in Ada by Dorothy Vinelander).
"There was once DoctorMertvago
who lived in a place called Lumbago..."
** - In the sense of the "Four Humours"(Hippocrates)
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-----Original Message-----
From: Jansy Mello <jansy.nabokv-L@AETERN.US>
To: NABOKV-L <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
Sent: Wed, Dec 18, 2013 12:31 pm
Subject: Re: [NABOKV-L] Dr Mertvago & Dr Swissair
Carolyn Kunin [ to Alexey*]"...:You should be ashamed - when I was growing up there wasno one more highly respected.[ ] p.s. As a physician working in"Lumbago" he was - well - a saint. But who cares? Not the shameless of thisworld, that's for sure.
Jansy Mello: Good for you, Carolyn.Although Albert Schweitzer doesn't really need that we take up arms to defendhim, as a Nabokov admirer I resent his often silly and biased "Strong Opinions"and appreciate it when some of our verbal genius's expostulations are brought upfor discussion.
Lumbago must refer to the lumbar pains VN often complained of or to his bile**, but it may suggest also Caribean Tobago (thereare diverse references to Trinidad and the Trinity student days inVN's works, or to the Caribean, the place of Demon Veen's fall) and DoctorMertvago refers, indirectly, to Pasternak's ("you man"parsnip"*) successful novel and, perhaps, even to another doctor writer,Tchekhov.
.......................................................................................
* - Why not just call a turnip a turnip? /You mean"parsnip" (pasternak)?
Do you also despise that other nabokovian bete noir,Albert Schweitzer? Never heard of him (unless he is "Dr Swissair of Lumbago"mentioned in Ada by Dorothy Vinelander).
"There was once DoctorMertvago
who lived in a place called Lumbago..."
** - In the sense of the "Four Humours"(Hippocrates)
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