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From: <naiman@socrates.Berkeley.EDU>
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Lets not forget Diana Butler's brilliant suggestion that the rhyme is with
a butterfly species. I don't have her article in front of me, but one of
my classicist colleagues did say that the rhyme pronunciation is plausible
On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, D. Barton Johnson wrote:
> EDITOr"S NOTE. Love that "raze/raise" pair. As for "Haze/Blaze", one can
also point
> to
> the house fire that leads HH to the Haze home. Also the fire motif in TT
in which
> Hugh is destroyed by his passion for Armande. Other thoughts?
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> Camille Scaysbrook wrote:
>
> >
> >
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> > An interesting question - the most obvious place to start looking for
> > connections might be Pale Fire (Fire/Blaze). Perhaps the references to
> > `Hurricane Lolita' - like a `blaze', a natural disaster have some
additional
> > resonances that are hitherto unexplored.
> >
> > When I first read the book I wondered if `Maze' might be the logical
(that
> > is, Nabokov-logical) answer, but my rhyming dictionary reveals a
multitude
> > of interesting and telling possibilities:
> >
> > Gaze, Daze, Raze/Raise (interestingly, homophones with directly
opposite
> > meanings), Faze/Phase, Preys, and Dais (a platform raised above the
> > surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it - as in
courtly
> > love) just to name a few, and not taking into account words of more
than one
> > syllable.
> >
> > Which did Nabokov intend? As always, the answer is: all of them :)
> >
> > Camille Scaysbrook
> >
>
From: <naiman@socrates.Berkeley.EDU>
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Lets not forget Diana Butler's brilliant suggestion that the rhyme is with
a butterfly species. I don't have her article in front of me, but one of
my classicist colleagues did say that the rhyme pronunciation is plausible
On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, D. Barton Johnson wrote:
> EDITOr"S NOTE. Love that "raze/raise" pair. As for "Haze/Blaze", one can
also point
> to
> the house fire that leads HH to the Haze home. Also the fire motif in TT
in which
> Hugh is destroyed by his passion for Armande. Other thoughts?
> -------------------------------
> Camille Scaysbrook wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > ---------------- Message requiring your approval (142
lines) ------------------
> > An interesting question - the most obvious place to start looking for
> > connections might be Pale Fire (Fire/Blaze). Perhaps the references to
> > `Hurricane Lolita' - like a `blaze', a natural disaster have some
additional
> > resonances that are hitherto unexplored.
> >
> > When I first read the book I wondered if `Maze' might be the logical
(that
> > is, Nabokov-logical) answer, but my rhyming dictionary reveals a
multitude
> > of interesting and telling possibilities:
> >
> > Gaze, Daze, Raze/Raise (interestingly, homophones with directly
opposite
> > meanings), Faze/Phase, Preys, and Dais (a platform raised above the
> > surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it - as in
courtly
> > love) just to name a few, and not taking into account words of more
than one
> > syllable.
> >
> > Which did Nabokov intend? As always, the answer is: all of them :)
> >
> > Camille Scaysbrook
> >
>