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Date: Tuesday, August 10, 2004 12:47 AM +0900
From: Akiko Nakata <a-nakata@courante.plala.or.jp>
To: chtodel@gss.ucsb.edu
Subject: TT-11 Introductory Notes
34.01-02: Hugh had met her first at a party in a New York house: Cf. "he
warned her that she overestimated a lot of things . . . the pleasures of
parties in New York" (Ch. 26).
34. 04: *Cunning Stunts*: See the Cunning Stunts mail.
34.17-18: her slight form in an orange blouse and black skirt: Another
woman who wears black.
34.20-35.02: Mr. R., who had bragged to an interviewer of being blessed
with a goodish amount of telepathic power, was bound to experience a twinge
of jealously at the present moment of spacetime: In the previous chapter,
Mr. R. was easily betrayed by his wife and daughter-in-law in spite of the
telepathic power. "[A]t the present moment of spacetime" means the present
time of narration?
35.09: unwound serpentines of pink and green toilet paper: Imaginary
serpents. Cf. "in the radiance of an Edenic simplification of mores."
35.34 Jimmy Major: Another J boy, another JM name.
36.01-05: the closet mirror as seen from the bed reflected exactly the same
still-life arrangement, oranges in a wooden bowl, as it had in the
garland-brief days of Jim, a voratious consumer of the centenarian's fruit:
An optical trick by the mirror that makes her orange blouse over the back
of a chair into oranges in a bowl, her real things into a still life. Here
oranges are innocent folktale fruit, but later they are connected with sex.
Armande and HP make love in a hidden place marked by orange peel (Ch. 15).
Jim, "a voracious consumer of" the fruit, means not be just an orange
eater. The illusion of Jim is the sharpest image of a dead person seen by a
living character.
From Brian Boyd's LoA TT edition: garland-brief days: Cf. A. E. Housman,
"To An Athlete Dying Young" (*A Shropshire Lad*, 1896, poem xix--about an
athlete who has died in a foreign war), last line: "the garland briefer
than a girl's."
Akiko Nakata
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Date: Tuesday, August 10, 2004 12:47 AM +0900
From: Akiko Nakata <a-nakata@courante.plala.or.jp>
To: chtodel@gss.ucsb.edu
Subject: TT-11 Introductory Notes
34.01-02: Hugh had met her first at a party in a New York house: Cf. "he
warned her that she overestimated a lot of things . . . the pleasures of
parties in New York" (Ch. 26).
34. 04: *Cunning Stunts*: See the Cunning Stunts mail.
34.17-18: her slight form in an orange blouse and black skirt: Another
woman who wears black.
34.20-35.02: Mr. R., who had bragged to an interviewer of being blessed
with a goodish amount of telepathic power, was bound to experience a twinge
of jealously at the present moment of spacetime: In the previous chapter,
Mr. R. was easily betrayed by his wife and daughter-in-law in spite of the
telepathic power. "[A]t the present moment of spacetime" means the present
time of narration?
35.09: unwound serpentines of pink and green toilet paper: Imaginary
serpents. Cf. "in the radiance of an Edenic simplification of mores."
35.34 Jimmy Major: Another J boy, another JM name.
36.01-05: the closet mirror as seen from the bed reflected exactly the same
still-life arrangement, oranges in a wooden bowl, as it had in the
garland-brief days of Jim, a voratious consumer of the centenarian's fruit:
An optical trick by the mirror that makes her orange blouse over the back
of a chair into oranges in a bowl, her real things into a still life. Here
oranges are innocent folktale fruit, but later they are connected with sex.
Armande and HP make love in a hidden place marked by orange peel (Ch. 15).
Jim, "a voracious consumer of" the fruit, means not be just an orange
eater. The illusion of Jim is the sharpest image of a dead person seen by a
living character.
From Brian Boyd's LoA TT edition: garland-brief days: Cf. A. E. Housman,
"To An Athlete Dying Young" (*A Shropshire Lad*, 1896, poem xix--about an
athlete who has died in a foreign war), last line: "the garland briefer
than a girl's."
Akiko Nakata
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D. Barton Johnson
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