Carolyn Kunin: From Wikipedia, the free
encyclopedia Les Rayons et les Ombres ("Beams and shadows", 1840) is a
collection of forty-four poems by Victor Hugo...The most famous poems are
numbers 34 and 42, La Tristesse d'Olympio and Oceano
Nox.
Jansy Mello: I'm sure you noticed that you mentioned "Oceano
Nox". Here is the reference to it in ADA: "The sky was also
heartless and dark, and her body, her head, and particularly those damned
thirsty trousers, felt clogged with Oceanus Nox, n,o,x. At every slap and splash
of cold wild salt, she heaved with anise-flavored nausea and there was an
increasing number, okay, or numbness, in her neck and arms. " ( this
dictation, with the spelling of n,o,x seems to be pointedly addressed to
Violet Knox)
Carolyn Kunin searched for NL entries
on parricide (besides the classic instance of Oedipus) she explored to
connect little John Shade and his parents. There's a 2009 movie directed by
F.F.Coppola, with parricide as a theme: "Tetro." I found nothing in
it to widen the perspective into John Shade's
oedipal motivations and Kunin's conjectures. In my
opinion, Nabokov characters's perversions, criminal projects
and murders is almost always completely explicit. I don't think
there's any warranty that he'd repeat this same pattern in a hermetic or
occult way. Carolyn's courageous ideas are always fascinating and she is
very thorough when she searches into them so I'll keep an open mind.
However, my experience when reading Nabokov feels close to his
own negation of evil, as we find it in SO when he says that he
has kicked out evil from the temple of his words, like the terrifying
gargolyes of its façade. I almost believe (unwisely so) that this process
is effective!