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Nabokov sighting: Rosenbaum on SkyMall
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And the more one thinks of wings, not chicken wings or airline wings, or
even the wax wings of Icarus, or the waxwings of Nabokov, the more one
thinks rather of Andrew Marvell's phrase for the onrush of mortality,
"Time's winged chariot."
The rest is well worth reading and a terrific exploration of psychic freight
of poshlost: http://www.slate.com/id/2164517
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And the more one thinks of wings, not chicken wings or airline wings, or
even the wax wings of Icarus, or the waxwings of Nabokov, the more one
thinks rather of Andrew Marvell's phrase for the onrush of mortality,
"Time's winged chariot."
The rest is well worth reading and a terrific exploration of psychic freight
of poshlost: http://www.slate.com/id/2164517
Search the archive: http://listserv.ucsb.edu/archives/nabokv-l.html
Search archive with Google:
http://www.google.com/advanced_search?q=site:listserv.ucsb.edu&HL=en
Contact the Editors: mailto:nabokv-l@utk.edu,nabokv-l@holycross.edu
Visit Zembla: http://www.libraries.psu.edu/nabokov/zembla.htm
View Nabokv-L policies: http://web.utk.edu/~sblackwe/EDNote.htm