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Re: THOUGHTS re: Rote, Eliot
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In a message dated 14/03/2008 03:09:54 GMT Standard Time, nabokv-l@UTK.EDU
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This is Eliot's "The Dry Salvages," from the Four Quartets (the poem Hazel
was reading in Canto 2) and it's clear that Eliot is using rote here to evoke
the sound of the sea. I have no idea how this might connect to the rest of
PF, but it surely must be the most likely literary source for VN's
use of the word. I wish I better understood VN's feelings about Eliot; he is
openly hostile towards him, but he draws on Eliot's work in significant
ways. Odd.
This is well noticed. And where is Shade supposed to be getting the word
from? Is VN attributing to Shade an affectation of distance from, and
near-ignorance of, a poem from which he has actually stolen (like the sea, moon and
sun) a word for a title?
Anthony Stadlen
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