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Re: RES: [NABOKV-L] Hazel & Haze, L. and Kinbote/Gradus
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Nicol, Charles. "Hazel and Haze,L: Families and Anti-Families." Paper
delivered at the Vladimir Nabokov Society Meeting, MLA Convention,
Washington, DC, 1996.
On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 5:12 PM, Charles Nicol <chaznicol@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Well, I 'm not necessarily claiming to be first to notice Haze and Hazel,
> but years ago--almost certainly pre-1999--I delivered a paper at MLA at a
> Nabokov session titled "Families and Anti-families." My paper was titled
> "Hazel and Haze, L.," and compared scenes from Lolita and Pale Fire that
> both had "father," mother and "daughter" shouting from
> different rooms as they read and worked. I no longer have those old
> programs with me, but maybe somebody else (preferably the session
> organizer) can verify this.
>
> Thanks from Charles Nicol.
>
>
> On Wednesday, February 26, 2014 2:07 PM, Jansy Mello <
> jansy.nabokv-L@AETERN.US> wrote:
>
>
> *Matt Roth*: *In a forthcoming article, I talk about the Hazel-Haze, L.
> coincidence, but I was unable to track down who first wrote about it. Does
> anyone have an earlier reference than the Rosenbaum article?*
> *Jansy Mello*: In 1999 Ron Rosenbaum publicly vindicated his discovery,
> if neither Boyd nor anyone else claimed it ("..* one detail I can't
> believe someone else hasn't noticed, but one I'd be delighted to get credit
> for noticing first: The ghost within the name "Hazel," the ghost of Lolita*.")
> He must have taken pride in it, too, because a "pale ghost" is the first
> thing that haunts our eyes in the title (and the link) to his article:
> http://observer.com/1999/04/nabokovs-pale-ghost-a-scholar-retracts/#ixzz2uBC21CAj
>
>
>
> *C. Kunin*: *"I was going to say that Kinbote was probably looking on,
> but it can't be ... he hasn't made the trip to America yet, so I guess at
> this point neither is aware of the other. Right?"*
> *Jansy Mello*: We know that Shade started to write "Pale Fire" in the
> Summer under Kinbote's dedicated eavesdropping and this is why I don't get
> you when you write that "at this point neither is aware of the other."
> I surmise that Shade was then too absorbed in his poetic elaborations to
> worry about his persistent neighbor during the process of finding himself
> in a "crystal land" (he wasn't having one of his fits, either, another
> instance of his splitting). You must be meaning Gradus, not Kinbote
> himself (note to lines 1-4): "*The poem was begun at the dead center of
> the year, a few minutes after midnight July 1, while I played chess with a
> young Iranian enrolled in our summer school; and I do not doubt that our
> poet would have understood his annotator's temptation to synchronize a
> certain fateful fact, the departure from Zembla of the would-be regicide
> Gradus, with that date. Actually, Gradus left Onhava on the Copenhagen
> plane on July 5.**" *
> Of course! Nice "incorporation"...
>
>
>
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delivered at the Vladimir Nabokov Society Meeting, MLA Convention,
Washington, DC, 1996.
On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 5:12 PM, Charles Nicol <chaznicol@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Well, I 'm not necessarily claiming to be first to notice Haze and Hazel,
> but years ago--almost certainly pre-1999--I delivered a paper at MLA at a
> Nabokov session titled "Families and Anti-families." My paper was titled
> "Hazel and Haze, L.," and compared scenes from Lolita and Pale Fire that
> both had "father," mother and "daughter" shouting from
> different rooms as they read and worked. I no longer have those old
> programs with me, but maybe somebody else (preferably the session
> organizer) can verify this.
>
> Thanks from Charles Nicol.
>
>
> On Wednesday, February 26, 2014 2:07 PM, Jansy Mello <
> jansy.nabokv-L@AETERN.US> wrote:
>
>
> *Matt Roth*: *In a forthcoming article, I talk about the Hazel-Haze, L.
> coincidence, but I was unable to track down who first wrote about it. Does
> anyone have an earlier reference than the Rosenbaum article?*
> *Jansy Mello*: In 1999 Ron Rosenbaum publicly vindicated his discovery,
> if neither Boyd nor anyone else claimed it ("..* one detail I can't
> believe someone else hasn't noticed, but one I'd be delighted to get credit
> for noticing first: The ghost within the name "Hazel," the ghost of Lolita*.")
> He must have taken pride in it, too, because a "pale ghost" is the first
> thing that haunts our eyes in the title (and the link) to his article:
> http://observer.com/1999/04/nabokovs-pale-ghost-a-scholar-retracts/#ixzz2uBC21CAj
>
>
>
> *C. Kunin*: *"I was going to say that Kinbote was probably looking on,
> but it can't be ... he hasn't made the trip to America yet, so I guess at
> this point neither is aware of the other. Right?"*
> *Jansy Mello*: We know that Shade started to write "Pale Fire" in the
> Summer under Kinbote's dedicated eavesdropping and this is why I don't get
> you when you write that "at this point neither is aware of the other."
> I surmise that Shade was then too absorbed in his poetic elaborations to
> worry about his persistent neighbor during the process of finding himself
> in a "crystal land" (he wasn't having one of his fits, either, another
> instance of his splitting). You must be meaning Gradus, not Kinbote
> himself (note to lines 1-4): "*The poem was begun at the dead center of
> the year, a few minutes after midnight July 1, while I played chess with a
> young Iranian enrolled in our summer school; and I do not doubt that our
> poet would have understood his annotator's temptation to synchronize a
> certain fateful fact, the departure from Zembla of the would-be regicide
> Gradus, with that date. Actually, Gradus left Onhava on the Copenhagen
> plane on July 5.**" *
> Of course! Nice "incorporation"...
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> <http://www.avast.com/>
> Este email está limpo de vírus e malwares porque a proteção do avast!
> Antivírus <http://www.avast.com/> está ativa.
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College of the Holy Cross
Worcester, MA 01610-2395
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