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I found a poem by Morris Bishop (in W.K. Wimsatt and M.C. Beardsley,
*The Verbal Icon*, *The Affective Fallacy*, 1954) that is somewhat
similar
to one of Humbert's poems (*Lolita*, Part II, Chapter 25, "The Squirl
and
his Squirrel"):
Moister than an oyster in its clammy cloister,
I'm bluer than a wooer who has slipped in a sewer,
Chiller than a killer in a cinema thriller,
Queerer than a leerer at his leer in the mirror,
Madder than an adder with a stone in the bladder.
If you want to know why, I cannot but reply:
It is really no affair of yours.
It is not clear whether this is the full poem or not. It was, we're
informed, printed in the New Yorker, May 31, 1947.
Cheers!
yours
Kiran
"The laboratory is where physics really happens."
- Senior Physics Experimental Notes, UNSW
http://www.physics.usyd.edu.au/~kiran
http://www.physics.usyd.edu/hienergy
I found a poem by Morris Bishop (in W.K. Wimsatt and M.C. Beardsley,
*The Verbal Icon*, *The Affective Fallacy*, 1954) that is somewhat
similar
to one of Humbert's poems (*Lolita*, Part II, Chapter 25, "The Squirl
and
his Squirrel"):
Moister than an oyster in its clammy cloister,
I'm bluer than a wooer who has slipped in a sewer,
Chiller than a killer in a cinema thriller,
Queerer than a leerer at his leer in the mirror,
Madder than an adder with a stone in the bladder.
If you want to know why, I cannot but reply:
It is really no affair of yours.
It is not clear whether this is the full poem or not. It was, we're
informed, printed in the New Yorker, May 31, 1947.
Cheers!
yours
Kiran
"The laboratory is where physics really happens."
- Senior Physics Experimental Notes, UNSW
http://www.physics.usyd.edu.au/~kiran
http://www.physics.usyd.edu/hienergy