Jansy Mello: After your information regarding
the Surnia ulula" link to Sirin, I began
to wonder if the ululating winds and tempests didn't represent an an
authorial intervention (Nabokov/Sirin as some kind of Zeus or Thor
).
Matt Roth's well-researched posting about "hurley
house", Sir Walter Scott's allusion to Shakespeare*, ghosts and
their branchings in Pale Fire,. convinced me of the
importance of waiting for more disclosures on these fascinating issues They
reveal, in part, VN's modus operandi!
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* The allusion is from Hamlet 1.4.53, where Hamlet
asks his father's ghost what it means that he "Revisits thus the glimpses of the
moon, Making night hideous, and we fools of nature...." This exchange
leads to the conversation which ends in "gins to pale his ineffectual
fire." Moreover, the imagery of the passage resonates with the Timon
passage from which "Pale Fire" gets its
name..