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Re: To A. Bouazza on FW, Circle
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In a message dated 13/02/2007 01:28:41 GMT Standard Time, nabokv-l@UTK.EDU
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One need not go to FINNEGANS WAKE for a circular structure but to VN's own
short story "The Circle", which was published in 1936 and hence precedes
Joyce's book of the night, a fact to which VN draws attention in his note on "The
Circle" in A RUSSIAN BEAUTY AND OTHER STORIES.
A. Bouazza.
Good point. But the circularity of things is really a commonplace. Comment
on East Coker:
The poem's starting line In my beginning is my end, which can be understood
as a poetical expression of [T.S.Eliot's] desire that his ashes be kept there
[ie from where his ancestors emigrated], is a derivation of Mary Queen of
Scots' motto "En ma fin est mon commencement" ("In my end is my beginning").
[Wiki].
Charles
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