Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0018289, Sun, 3 May 2009 21:34:06 +0400

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Re: THOUGHTS: Roth/DeRewal article in NOJ
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CK: I don't recall who the eavesdropper was -- do you?

The squirrel (that witnesses Van and Ada's first kiss): "hight up in that dappled tree, with only that stray ardilla daintily leavesdropping [sic]" (Part One, ch. 16). On the other hand, there is a "leavesdropper" (a splendid trouvaille, according to Demon) in Ada's second version (composed by Van, as B. Boyd pointed out) of Coppee's poem: "Their fall is gentle: the leavesdropper / Can follow each of them and know / The oak tree by its leaf of copper, / The maple by its blood-red glow" (ch. 38).

Alexey

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