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Re: Nova Zembla (fwd)
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From: Thomas Seifrid <SEIFRID@hermes.usc.edu>
"Nova Zembla" appears in that form in Alexander Pope, I am pretty
sure in his "Essay on Man," and it is in that connection that *Pale
Fire* deploys the name (it is in the same passage in Pope as the line "See
the blind beggar dance, the cripple sing" quoted on Shade's line
419--Help me, Don!). So if it does not designate a real place on
current maps, at the very least the store's owners will have to apply
to Pope's descendents and not VN's.
Tom Seifrid
USC
"Nova Zembla" appears in that form in Alexander Pope, I am pretty
sure in his "Essay on Man," and it is in that connection that *Pale
Fire* deploys the name (it is in the same passage in Pope as the line "See
the blind beggar dance, the cripple sing" quoted on Shade's line
419--Help me, Don!). So if it does not designate a real place on
current maps, at the very least the store's owners will have to apply
to Pope's descendents and not VN's.
Tom Seifrid
USC