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----- Original Message -----
From: "Morris, John" <MorrisJ@cisnet.org>
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> Does anyone know, or surmise, why VN chose that passage as PALE FIRE's
> epigraph?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: D. Barton Johnson [mailto:chtodel@cox.net]
> Sent: Friday, April 11, 2003 2:16 PM
> To: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
> Subject: Fw: Hodge the Cat and Houghmagandy...
>
>
> EDNOTE. For those who may have forgotten: "This reminds me of the
ludicrous
> account he gave Mr. Langton, of the dispicable state of a young gentleman
of
> good family. "Sir, when I heard of him last, he was running about town
> shooting cats." And then in a sort of kindly reverie, h bethought himself
of
> hisown favorite cat, and said, "But Hodge shan't be shot: no, no, Hodge
> shall not be shot."
> ------Boswell's _Life of Johnson_ Epigraph to VN's PALE FIRE.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Discobolus" <tom@discobolus.co.za>
> To: "D. Barton Johnson" <chtodel@cox.net>
> Sent: Friday, April 11, 2003 10:56 AM
> Subject: Hodge the Cat and Houghmagandy...
>
>
> > Dear List..
> >
> > The statue of Hodge was unveiled in September 1997 by the Lord Mayor of
> London. The work of sculptor Jon Buckley, it sits in Gough Square, facing
> No 17, where Dr Johnson worked on his dictionary. The house is a museum
> today, with a souvenir shop where you can buy a miniature of the Hodge
> statue. The square is just off Fleet Street. For further details try:
> >
> > http://www.moggies.co.uk/stories/finecat.html
> >
> > I also attach another extract from "The X-Crystals," in which two of my
> characters speculate about VN's Lallans vocabulary. This SF novel has an
> epigraph from "Ada," which Brian Boyd was good enough to pinpoint for me,
a
> complete stranger. Thanks again, Brian.
>
> > Regards,
> Tom (Rymour)
>
>
>
From: "Morris, John" <MorrisJ@cisnet.org>
>
> ----------------- Message requiring your approval (45
lines) ------------------
> Does anyone know, or surmise, why VN chose that passage as PALE FIRE's
> epigraph?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: D. Barton Johnson [mailto:chtodel@cox.net]
> Sent: Friday, April 11, 2003 2:16 PM
> To: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
> Subject: Fw: Hodge the Cat and Houghmagandy...
>
>
> EDNOTE. For those who may have forgotten: "This reminds me of the
ludicrous
> account he gave Mr. Langton, of the dispicable state of a young gentleman
of
> good family. "Sir, when I heard of him last, he was running about town
> shooting cats." And then in a sort of kindly reverie, h bethought himself
of
> hisown favorite cat, and said, "But Hodge shan't be shot: no, no, Hodge
> shall not be shot."
> ------Boswell's _Life of Johnson_ Epigraph to VN's PALE FIRE.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Discobolus" <tom@discobolus.co.za>
> To: "D. Barton Johnson" <chtodel@cox.net>
> Sent: Friday, April 11, 2003 10:56 AM
> Subject: Hodge the Cat and Houghmagandy...
>
>
> > Dear List..
> >
> > The statue of Hodge was unveiled in September 1997 by the Lord Mayor of
> London. The work of sculptor Jon Buckley, it sits in Gough Square, facing
> No 17, where Dr Johnson worked on his dictionary. The house is a museum
> today, with a souvenir shop where you can buy a miniature of the Hodge
> statue. The square is just off Fleet Street. For further details try:
> >
> > http://www.moggies.co.uk/stories/finecat.html
> >
> > I also attach another extract from "The X-Crystals," in which two of my
> characters speculate about VN's Lallans vocabulary. This SF novel has an
> epigraph from "Ada," which Brian Boyd was good enough to pinpoint for me,
a
> complete stranger. Thanks again, Brian.
>
> > Regards,
> Tom (Rymour)
>
>
>