Dear List,
The subject "beaver-beard" and Huxley's Antic
Hay has been amply discussed in the List in July/August 2008. Daryl Schade's contribution is new! [...beaver is also
used (in Shakespeare, Hamlet) as another name for the retractable visor which
can be raised or lowered to protect the face in helmets...one face when the
visor/mask is down and the real face hidden behind.].
There is a small note on the subject which shall
appear in the next issue of "The Nabokovian", connected to beaver and
"Castor" (namely, Rameau's "Castor and Pollux").
Jansy
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Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2010 12:52
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Subject: Re: [NABOKV-L] THOUGHTS re the
Great Beaver]
"Beaver" obsolete? It was alive and much used in Aldous Huxley's "Antic
Hay", in the 1920s. Its antihero Gumbril acquires a beard, and attracts
the appellation Beaver.
Anthony Stadlen
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