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From: "Jansy Berndt de Souza Mello" <jansy@aetern.us>
To: "Vladimir Nabokov Forum" <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2003 11:51 AM
Subject: Re: incomplete nabokov sightings
> Hi, Don
> I found three " Nabokov Sightings" among my papers and they are very
> frustrating because at the time ( in the late eighties) I was only
> interested in collecting references that approached the names of Nabokov
and
> Samuel Beckett and I cut off references, dates since I needed only the
> reminder.
> I´ m adding a copy of them anyway ( two of them from Brazilian
> magazines and newspaper; one from Time Magazine )
> Concerning Humbert´s teeth or odontological themses in general, I
found
> the reference I´d been looking for in Wilhelm Busch. Fortunately I
> remembered that Freud had described this same poetical tooth-ache and his
> well-annotated Standard Edition guided me to vol.V of W.Busch´s Gesamt
Werk
> in his Balduin Bählamm ( chapter VIII).
> Busch describes the Poet Balduin Bählamm´s various accidents and
> incidents ( my insistence in the ending "dents" - as in acci/dents and
> inci/dents - ie.: "teeth" in latin was originally fortuitous...but I
> maintained it for curiosity´s sake ) . I´ve scanned only one image and
shall
> be sending it in my next email. I haven´t yet sat down to read.the entire
> story told in verses and rhymes with drawings added.
> The sentence Freud extracted ( another dental term, in a way...)
appears
> in his essay about Narcissism. He wrote " Says Wilhelm Busch of the poet
> suffering from tooth-ache that his entire soul is concentrated in the
aching
> hole" : " Einzig in der engen Höhle/Des Backenzahnes weilt die Seele" .
> W.Busch ( 1832-1908) was born in Widensehl, close do Hannover, and
his
> illustrated story of Max and Moritz made him famous world-wide. It would
be
> difficult to live in Germany and not hear about him.
> Best wishes. Jansy
>
