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Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 14:24:20 -0400 (EDT)
From: alexander young <ayoung@email.gc.cuny.edu>
IN RESPONSE TO THE FOLLOWING:
On Thu, 24 Oct 1996, Donald Barton Johnson wrote:
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> Date: 22 Oct 96 20:47:27 EDT
> From: Vitaly Kupisk <104361.1700@CompuServe.COM>
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> Dear Nabokovians,
>
> Can anyone help me with the following questions:
>
> 1. On line 370 of "Pale Fire" Hazel asks, "Mother , what's 'grimpen'?". While
> "chtonic" and "sempiternal" are easily looked up, I haven't been able to find
> "grimpen" in OED, Webster 2, or Webster 3 (unless it's a form of "grimp"), so I
> am puzzled as to what Sybil's "guarded scholium" could have been. And what is
> that poem Hazel is reading, after all? I think THAT's an engaging and
> compelling question...
>
> Vitaly Kupisk
In the last short chapter of his "Nabokov's Art of Memory..."
(Princeton UP, I think) J.B.Foster discusses the above passage from "Pale
Fire" in terms of its intertextual polemic with Anglo high modernism. The
words in question, if I remember correctly, can be traced to "Four
Quartets" and/or "The Wasteland." I found Foster's discussion of Nabokov's
objections to Toilest interesting and pertinent.
-A. Seth Young
ayoung@email.gc.cuny.edu
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 14:24:20 -0400 (EDT)
From: alexander young <ayoung@email.gc.cuny.edu>
IN RESPONSE TO THE FOLLOWING:
On Thu, 24 Oct 1996, Donald Barton Johnson wrote:
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: 22 Oct 96 20:47:27 EDT
> From: Vitaly Kupisk <104361.1700@CompuServe.COM>
>
> Dear Nabokovians,
>
> Can anyone help me with the following questions:
>
> 1. On line 370 of "Pale Fire" Hazel asks, "Mother , what's 'grimpen'?". While
> "chtonic" and "sempiternal" are easily looked up, I haven't been able to find
> "grimpen" in OED, Webster 2, or Webster 3 (unless it's a form of "grimp"), so I
> am puzzled as to what Sybil's "guarded scholium" could have been. And what is
> that poem Hazel is reading, after all? I think THAT's an engaging and
> compelling question...
>
> Vitaly Kupisk
In the last short chapter of his "Nabokov's Art of Memory..."
(Princeton UP, I think) J.B.Foster discusses the above passage from "Pale
Fire" in terms of its intertextual polemic with Anglo high modernism. The
words in question, if I remember correctly, can be traced to "Four
Quartets" and/or "The Wasteland." I found Foster's discussion of Nabokov's
objections to Toilest interesting and pertinent.
-A. Seth Young
ayoung@email.gc.cuny.edu