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Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2004 09:03:10 +0900
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Subject: TT-16 Introductory Notes
56.01-02: Witt had a new tennis court. One day Armande challenged Hugh to a
set: The
introduction is not followed by the game but by the description of the
Person Stroke and then what HP says under questioning by a psychiatrist, who
reappears and resumes it in Ch. 20. Most of this
chapter is considered a report of the psychiatric test given after he
murders
Armande.
57.04: Guy: Another anonymous-like name. His full name is possibly Guy
Person.
57.21: "galosh": A real tennis term? I found in a dictionary that a Soviet
antiballistic missile (ABM-1B) was called that by NATO. Is it "quite easy,
of
course, to return"?!
57.28-29: the ball hardly rose from the ground: HP, who would not begin to
ski,
learned to "skim" in his own way, but it was so "art-for-art's sake" that it
"did not win him a match."
58.26-28: winning in a mist of well-being the Davis cup brimming with the
poppy: Cf. "Humbert imagines Dolly to be a tennis champion and himself her
husband and coach: "Dolores,
with two rackets under her arm, in Wimbledon. Dolores endorsing a Dromedary.
Dolores turning professional. Dolores acting a girl champion in a movie.
Dolores and her gray, humble, hushed husband-coach, old Humbert" (II.20).
59.20-21: he was offered a sleeping beauty on a great platter garnished with
flowers,
and a choice of tools on a cushion: Is there a source of the Sadeian
illusion?
60.09: a rift of the texture of space: The narrator has called our attention
to the folds and furrows of space among which things disappear (Ch. 4).
"[T]he texture of space" is a pun *The Texture of Time*, Van Veen's
lifework.
60.07-12: he would find himself trying to stop or divert a trickle of grain
or fine
gravel from a rift of the texture of space. . . . He was finally blocked by
masses of rubbish, and
*that* was death: HP seems to have inherited his father's agonizing dreams,
in which Person Sr. struggles with large blocks while his son with obstacles
of
various sizes and kinds.
60.12: collapsing colossuses: possibly alludes to *Don Juan*? The colossuses
as well as a heavy sculpture upstairs (Ch. 19) have been bothering me.
Person Sr. who was afraid of lightning, his death described as if caused by
one and HP's reference to Byron (I do not know whether or not a statue would
be appearing in the unfinished canto) also suggest me to connect the statues
with the legend.
60.35-61.03: He was advised that in calling her by her first name one simply
meant to induce an informal atmosphere. One always did that. Only yesterday
one had put another prisoner completely
at ease by saying: The peculiar first person "one" is used by a character
other than Armande for the first time.
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Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2004 09:03:10 +0900
From: Akiko Nakata <a-nakata@courante.plala.or.jp>
Reply-To: Akiko Nakata <a-nakata@courante.plala.or.jp>
Subject: Fw: TT-16 Introductory Notes
To: chtodel@gss.ucsb.edu, chtodel@cox.net
----- Original Message -----
From: "Akiko Nakata" <a-nakata@courante.plala.or.jp>
To: <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2004 12:12 AM
Subject: TT-16 Introductory Notes
56.01-02: Witt had a new tennis court. One day Armande challenged Hugh to a
set: The
introduction is not followed by the game but by the description of the
Person Stroke and then what HP says under questioning by a psychiatrist, who
reappears and resumes it in Ch. 20. Most of this
chapter is considered a report of the psychiatric test given after he
murders
Armande.
57.04: Guy: Another anonymous-like name. His full name is possibly Guy
Person.
57.21: "galosh": A real tennis term? I found in a dictionary that a Soviet
antiballistic missile (ABM-1B) was called that by NATO. Is it "quite easy,
of
course, to return"?!
57.28-29: the ball hardly rose from the ground: HP, who would not begin to
ski,
learned to "skim" in his own way, but it was so "art-for-art's sake" that it
"did not win him a match."
58.26-28: winning in a mist of well-being the Davis cup brimming with the
poppy: Cf. "Humbert imagines Dolly to be a tennis champion and himself her
husband and coach: "Dolores,
with two rackets under her arm, in Wimbledon. Dolores endorsing a Dromedary.
Dolores turning professional. Dolores acting a girl champion in a movie.
Dolores and her gray, humble, hushed husband-coach, old Humbert" (II.20).
59.20-21: he was offered a sleeping beauty on a great platter garnished with
flowers,
and a choice of tools on a cushion: Is there a source of the Sadeian
illusion?
60.09: a rift of the texture of space: The narrator has called our attention
to the folds and furrows of space among which things disappear (Ch. 4).
"[T]he texture of space" is a pun *The Texture of Time*, Van Veen's
lifework.
60.07-12: he would find himself trying to stop or divert a trickle of grain
or fine
gravel from a rift of the texture of space. . . . He was finally blocked by
masses of rubbish, and
*that* was death: HP seems to have inherited his father's agonizing dreams,
in which Person Sr. struggles with large blocks while his son with obstacles
of
various sizes and kinds.
60.12: collapsing colossuses: possibly alludes to *Don Juan*? The colossuses
as well as a heavy sculpture upstairs (Ch. 19) have been bothering me.
Person Sr. who was afraid of lightning, his death described as if caused by
one and HP's reference to Byron (I do not know whether or not a statue would
be appearing in the unfinished canto) also suggest me to connect the statues
with the legend.
60.35-61.03: He was advised that in calling her by her first name one simply
meant to induce an informal atmosphere. One always did that. Only yesterday
one had put another prisoner completely
at ease by saying: The peculiar first person "one" is used by a character
other than Armande for the first time.
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