Stan K-B to JM: "enjoyed
reading all your citations where VN’s characters have Hazel(ic) eyes. Your next
MISSION, if you dare accept it, is to find ALL references where VN describes
eyes that are NOT-hazel(ic)! (Google’s Boolean tools may be stretched?).Next,
list ALL the specific eye-colour names used by VN. Simplify names and calculate
percentages. Finally, and hardest (Google offers no help), ponder if the choice
of eye-colour has any SIGNIFICANCE, e.g., providing CLUES to VN’s narratival
intentions, or affecting how we perceive the characters thus
described."
JM: Now, in your ice blue green
tinted eyes, I've become a woman with a mission (ie:
the deconstruction of selfsame mission). You forgot the
importance of Lolita's eyes and the wordplay that ensues from it (
hazel is more often than not green/blue, not brown) eyes are "vair" (verre,
vert,vrai, gray, furry like the animal mentioned in
Pnin).
Sandy!
SES! Great to find you back. Thanks, Steve for your stoic patience and... sorry
for the various postings on the same theme that, by accident, cluttered
today's Nab-mail .
I'll
return some other time with the quotes about "vair" (Lolita and Pnin) but, with
no google-aid, I won't be able to provide any "narratival intention" in VN,
except for his various ways of indicating his own hazel-hued eyes shining
through his female characters more often than not. A gender
issue?