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----- Original Message -----
From: "Dane Gill" <pennyparkerpark@hotmail.com>
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> I always understood that line to mean moving to another planet with
another
> star as its sun...not the actual star. I have the Modern Library first
> edition paperback, a notoriously flawed copy of The Gift, I won't bother
> coming up with the page.
> Dane
>
>
> >From: "D. Barton Johnson" <chtodel@cox.net>
> >Reply-To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
> >To: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
> >Subject: Fw: 'star' in The Gift
> >Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 17:00:21 -0800
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> >EDNOTE. A suggestion. It is good that BH specifies edition and page
number.
> >Alas, the 700 subscribers probably have 50 different editions. For
citation
> >purposes, it is often best to include chapter and (if available) section
> >number. Admittedly this would not be of much help for THE GIFT which is
> >quite long but has only 5 chapter and no subdivisions. For most of the
> >books, however, indication of chapter (and section) number would make it
> >much easier to consult the passage being queried. It would probably also
> >result in a larger number of responses.
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Brian Howell" <pakmshlter@yahoo.com>
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> > > I'm curious about the word 'star' as used in The Gift,
> > > p. 312 of my Penguin edition. Fyodor speculates about
> > > 'printing shops being moved ... to a neighbouring
> > > star'. Is 'star' being used here in the very loose,
> > > incorrect sense of a celestial body like a planet
> > > (which is impossible, of course)? Yet, as Fyodor is a
> > > poet, he surely woudln't use it like this? Or it a
> > > loose translation (for want of a better word)?
> > >
> > > Brian Howell
> > >
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> > > http://www.tobypress.com/books/dance_geometry.htm
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From: "Dane Gill" <pennyparkerpark@hotmail.com>
>
> ----------------- Message requiring your approval (51
lines) ------------------
> I always understood that line to mean moving to another planet with
another
> star as its sun...not the actual star. I have the Modern Library first
> edition paperback, a notoriously flawed copy of The Gift, I won't bother
> coming up with the page.
> Dane
>
>
> >From: "D. Barton Johnson" <chtodel@cox.net>
> >Reply-To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
> >To: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
> >Subject: Fw: 'star' in The Gift
> >Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 17:00:21 -0800
> >
> >EDNOTE. A suggestion. It is good that BH specifies edition and page
number.
> >Alas, the 700 subscribers probably have 50 different editions. For
citation
> >purposes, it is often best to include chapter and (if available) section
> >number. Admittedly this would not be of much help for THE GIFT which is
> >quite long but has only 5 chapter and no subdivisions. For most of the
> >books, however, indication of chapter (and section) number would make it
> >much easier to consult the passage being queried. It would probably also
> >result in a larger number of responses.
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Brian Howell" <pakmshlter@yahoo.com>
> > > ----------------- Message requiring your approval (19
> >lines) ------------------
> >
> > > I'm curious about the word 'star' as used in The Gift,
> > > p. 312 of my Penguin edition. Fyodor speculates about
> > > 'printing shops being moved ... to a neighbouring
> > > star'. Is 'star' being used here in the very loose,
> > > incorrect sense of a celestial body like a planet
> > > (which is impossible, of course)? Yet, as Fyodor is a
> > > poet, he surely woudln't use it like this? Or it a
> > > loose translation (for want of a better word)?
> > >
> > > Brian Howell
> > >
> > > =====
> > > http://www.elasticpress.com/sound_of_white_ants.htm
> > > http://www.tobypress.com/books/dance_geometry.htm
> > >
> > > __________________________________
> > > Do you Yahoo!?
> > > New Yahoo! Photos - easier uploading and sharing.
> > > http://photos.yahoo.com/
>
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