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Numbers? A coincidence?
Numbers? A coincidence?
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As a certain professor of mine would say, quoting some novelist (Vivian
something, I think) - the tracing of parallels can be a form of insanity.
On Jul 11, 2015 9:09 AM, "Jansy Mello" <jansy.mello@outlook.com> wrote:
>
>
> *Mahmhoud Aliamer**:**When I initially split my PF into fourteen line
> segments, I had card 11 ending after "140 Tugged at by playful death,
> released again" as well, with Canto One ending with thirteen cards exactly,
> but it does seem to me that there is a double space between "bicycle tires"
> and " a thread of subtle pain," which would necessitate that a
> line be skipped on the index card. That double space, which occurs in both
> of my Vintage International editions, does not seem to be present in the
> Everyman's Library 1992 edition of Pale Fire. **If the double space is
> not considered, the first canto is thirteen index cards long. It seems to
> be more so a quirk of printing than a Nabokovian trick.*
>
>
>
> *Jansy Mello:*
> * In his foreword, Charles Kinbote details: “writing out [...] the text of
> his poem, skipping a line to indicate double space, and always using a
> fresh card to begin a new canto. This is an important remark. In the
> “facsimile” of the cards a line has not been skipped. The “facsimile”,
> with its two different graphic presentations (booklet and cards),
> apparently shows an inconsistency or is “undecidable” when we keep
> following the information given by Kinbote. *
>
> *(Are we to trust CK????)*
>
>
> ...............................................................................................
>
> *JM (again):* Just to report an interesting VN coincidence. Just as I
> was opening today’s posting related to Mahmoud Aliamer’s query a flesh and
> blood postman rang twice and delivered a book that I’d ordered some time
> ago*. I’ve only read the first paragraph of one of its chapters, by Brian
> McHale: “Affordances of Form in Stanzaic Narrative Poetry”:
>
> “*In this paper I pursue some further aspects of a topic I addressed in
> “Beginning to Think about Narrative in Poetry.” I argued there that poetry
> is crucially distinguished from other forms of verbal art by its
> foregrounding of segmentivity – the spacing of language. If this is so,
> then a priority for narratological approaches to poetry – qwhich I
> advocated in that paper – is analysis of the potential for interaction
> between poetry’s segmentation and the segmentation proper to narrative*…”
>
>
> Seems inviting and disturbing (the entire collection of articles, I mean)!
>
> ……………………………………………………………………………………………………..
> *Narrative, Interrupted- the Plotless, the Disturbing and the Trivial in
> Literature. Edited by Markku Lehtimäki, Laura Kartunen, Marioa Mäkelä.
> 2012Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin/Boston. www.degruyter.com
>
>
>
> -
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something, I think) - the tracing of parallels can be a form of insanity.
On Jul 11, 2015 9:09 AM, "Jansy Mello" <jansy.mello@outlook.com> wrote:
>
>
> *Mahmhoud Aliamer**:**When I initially split my PF into fourteen line
> segments, I had card 11 ending after "140 Tugged at by playful death,
> released again" as well, with Canto One ending with thirteen cards exactly,
> but it does seem to me that there is a double space between "bicycle tires"
> and " a thread of subtle pain," which would necessitate that a
> line be skipped on the index card. That double space, which occurs in both
> of my Vintage International editions, does not seem to be present in the
> Everyman's Library 1992 edition of Pale Fire. **If the double space is
> not considered, the first canto is thirteen index cards long. It seems to
> be more so a quirk of printing than a Nabokovian trick.*
>
>
>
> *Jansy Mello:*
> * In his foreword, Charles Kinbote details: “writing out [...] the text of
> his poem, skipping a line to indicate double space, and always using a
> fresh card to begin a new canto. This is an important remark. In the
> “facsimile” of the cards a line has not been skipped. The “facsimile”,
> with its two different graphic presentations (booklet and cards),
> apparently shows an inconsistency or is “undecidable” when we keep
> following the information given by Kinbote. *
>
> *(Are we to trust CK????)*
>
>
> ...............................................................................................
>
> *JM (again):* Just to report an interesting VN coincidence. Just as I
> was opening today’s posting related to Mahmoud Aliamer’s query a flesh and
> blood postman rang twice and delivered a book that I’d ordered some time
> ago*. I’ve only read the first paragraph of one of its chapters, by Brian
> McHale: “Affordances of Form in Stanzaic Narrative Poetry”:
>
> “*In this paper I pursue some further aspects of a topic I addressed in
> “Beginning to Think about Narrative in Poetry.” I argued there that poetry
> is crucially distinguished from other forms of verbal art by its
> foregrounding of segmentivity – the spacing of language. If this is so,
> then a priority for narratological approaches to poetry – qwhich I
> advocated in that paper – is analysis of the potential for interaction
> between poetry’s segmentation and the segmentation proper to narrative*…”
>
>
> Seems inviting and disturbing (the entire collection of articles, I mean)!
>
> ……………………………………………………………………………………………………..
> *Narrative, Interrupted- the Plotless, the Disturbing and the Trivial in
> Literature. Edited by Markku Lehtimäki, Laura Kartunen, Marioa Mäkelä.
> 2012Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin/Boston. www.degruyter.com
>
>
>
> -
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> Contact <nabokv-l@utk.edu,nabokv-l@holycross.edu>
> the Editors <nabokv-l@utk.edu,nabokv-l@holycross.edu> NOJ
> <http://www.nabokovonline.com> Zembla
> <http://www.libraries.psu.edu/nabokov/zembla.htm> Nabokv-L
> <http://web.utk.edu/%7Esblackwe/EDNote.htm>
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> <https://listserv.ucsb.edu/lsv-cgi-bin/wa?A0=NABOKV-L> VN Bibliography
> Blog <http://vnbiblio.com/>
>
> All private editorial communications are read by both co-editors.
>
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