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Re: QUERY: Source for Nabokov passage from love letter
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Dear Paul,
Perhaps you mean this:
*The eastern side of every minute of mine is already colored by the light of
our impending meeting. All the rest is dark, boring, you-less.*
*
*
It's from a letter he wrote to Véra. V.N. Selected Letters, p. 18,
Best,
Hafid Bouazza
2010/10/29 NABOKV-L <NABOKV-L@holycross.edu>
> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to find a passage that I read in a Nabokov book, however I only
> have the very vaguest recollection of it. The clues I can remember are:
>
> - I'm almost certain it was the end of a love letter
> - It used the sun rising or setting, or perhaps the turning of the earth,
> as
> a device to illustrate the distance between the letter-writer and his love.
> - I'm also pretty sure that Martin Amis used it somewhere, either putting
> the words into one of his own characters or quoting it in some critical
> work.
>
> I know there is almost nothing to go on, but maybe someone will recognize
> what I'm talking about.
>
> thank you,
>
> Paul Nulty
>
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Perhaps you mean this:
*The eastern side of every minute of mine is already colored by the light of
our impending meeting. All the rest is dark, boring, you-less.*
*
*
It's from a letter he wrote to Véra. V.N. Selected Letters, p. 18,
Best,
Hafid Bouazza
2010/10/29 NABOKV-L <NABOKV-L@holycross.edu>
> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to find a passage that I read in a Nabokov book, however I only
> have the very vaguest recollection of it. The clues I can remember are:
>
> - I'm almost certain it was the end of a love letter
> - It used the sun rising or setting, or perhaps the turning of the earth,
> as
> a device to illustrate the distance between the letter-writer and his love.
> - I'm also pretty sure that Martin Amis used it somewhere, either putting
> the words into one of his own characters or quoting it in some critical
> work.
>
> I know there is almost nothing to go on, but maybe someone will recognize
> what I'm talking about.
>
> thank you,
>
> Paul Nulty
>
> Search the archive<http://www.google.com/advanced_search?q=site:listserv.ucsb.edu&HL=en> Contact
> the Editors <nabokv-l@utk.edu,nabokv-l@holycross.edu> Visit "Nabokov
> Online Journal" <http://www.nabokovonline.com> Visit Zembla<http://www.libraries.psu.edu/nabokov/zembla.htm> View
> Nabokv-L Policies <http://web.utk.edu/~sblackwe/EDNote.htm> Manage
> subscription options <http://listserv.ucsb.edu/>
>
> All private editorial communications, without exception, are read by both
> co-editors.
>
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Contact the Editors: mailto:nabokv-l@utk.edu,nabokv-l@holycross.edu
Visit Zembla: http://www.libraries.psu.edu/nabokov/zembla.htm
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