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[NABOKOV-L] TOoL: Wild's swing,
contrasted with John and Hazel Shade's.
contrasted with John and Hazel Shade's.
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In a message about "poor old man Swift", as regards Hazel's swing, I'd been unable to recall if the poet mentions that a swing, tied to its branches, would grow more distant from the ground with the passing years. Actually, it was not Shade who noted this, but Philip Wild, Flora's husband,in TOoL. On pages 269/270 we read:
"There was an old swing hanging from a branch of an old oaktree...Its ropes looked sturdy enough...I now had to take a ladder to it, for the sentimental relic was lifted out of human reach by the growth of the picturesque but completely indifferent tree." After Wild climbs on it "the cordage burst and I was hurled...into a ditch full of brambles which ripped off a piece of the peacock blue dressing down..."
It was Wild's fat half-sister (dead before reaching puberty) who often used it and it was hanging in an ideal spot for Wild's first experiments.
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"There was an old swing hanging from a branch of an old oaktree...Its ropes looked sturdy enough...I now had to take a ladder to it, for the sentimental relic was lifted out of human reach by the growth of the picturesque but completely indifferent tree." After Wild climbs on it "the cordage burst and I was hurled...into a ditch full of brambles which ripped off a piece of the peacock blue dressing down..."
It was Wild's fat half-sister (dead before reaching puberty) who often used it and it was hanging in an ideal spot for Wild's first experiments.
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