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Fran Assa: I forgot one of the best, VN-ish parts of "The Moth": The very reliable narrator of the story actually footnotes three of the written volleys between the warring entomologists! FA former footnote: "New Genus, by heavens! And in England!" said Hapley, staring. Then he suddenly thought of Pawkins. Nothing would have maddened Pawkins more...And Pawkins was dead!]
JM: Your excerpts from HGW's "The Moth" reminded me of a poem by VN in which he describes a heavenly discovery ( an angel, was it?) and finds there is no one else in his Paradise with whom he could share this extraordinary find.
Victor Fet wrote a fascinating article about the "Zoological Label as Literary Form" (The Nabokovian 60, Spring 2008) and, here, the lamentation serves to indicate the social side to labeling, the phantasmatic relationship with known and unknown fellows, similar to a writer's and his readers.
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JM: Your excerpts from HGW's "The Moth" reminded me of a poem by VN in which he describes a heavenly discovery ( an angel, was it?) and finds there is no one else in his Paradise with whom he could share this extraordinary find.
Victor Fet wrote a fascinating article about the "Zoological Label as Literary Form" (The Nabokovian 60, Spring 2008) and, here, the lamentation serves to indicate the social side to labeling, the phantasmatic relationship with known and unknown fellows, similar to a writer's and his readers.
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