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Fw: [NABOKV-L] Pale Fire, Sybil and Garfield: images and texts
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"Your ruby ring made life and laid the law.
Oh, switch it off! And as life snapped we saw
A pinhead light dwindle and die in black
Infinity.
Out of his lakeside shack
A watchman, Father Time, all gray and bent,
Emerged with his uneasy dog and went
Along the reedy bank. He came too late."
(Pale Fire, 465/477)
The juxtaposition of Sybil's power over life and death and Hazel's suicide struck me with a new strenght this time, after the cartoonlike mockery about TV adverts and oozy prides. The strange element, for me, lies in the lines: "die in black Infinity."
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Oh, switch it off! And as life snapped we saw
A pinhead light dwindle and die in black
Infinity.
Out of his lakeside shack
A watchman, Father Time, all gray and bent,
Emerged with his uneasy dog and went
Along the reedy bank. He came too late."
(Pale Fire, 465/477)
The juxtaposition of Sybil's power over life and death and Hazel's suicide struck me with a new strenght this time, after the cartoonlike mockery about TV adverts and oozy prides. The strange element, for me, lies in the lines: "die in black Infinity."
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