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The sky was also heartless and dark, and her [Lucette's] body, her head, and particularly those damned thirsty trousers, felt clogged with Oceanus Nox, n, o, x. (Ada, Part Three, 5).
The chapter of Byloe i dumy in which Herzen tells about the death of his mother and son in a ship-wreck is entitled Oceano Nox (1851).
On the other hand, Herzen devoted a chapter of Byloe i dumy (Part Seven, chapter VII) to Ivan Golovin (1816-90), a fellow emigre, namesake of the hero of Tolstoy's story "The Death of Ivan Ilyich" (1886). One of Golovin's pen-names was Nivolog. There is Van (cf. Van Veen, Ada's protagonist) in Ivan, Vin (Russian spelling of Veen; French for "wine") in Golovin and Log (the Supreme Being on Antiterra) in Nivolog. The name Golovin comes from golova ("head"). The name Herzen comes from Herz (Germ., "heart").
Btw., Golovin was envious that critics compared Lermontov to Goethe. "Why not [compare him] to Platen?" he asked in his Zapiski ("Reminiscences," 1859). Platen = planet. I mentioned Count August von Platen earlier, when speaking of Heinrich Heine, the author of Plateniden (1851). Incidentally, Golovin was a typical Platenid.
Alexey Sklyarenko
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The chapter of Byloe i dumy in which Herzen tells about the death of his mother and son in a ship-wreck is entitled Oceano Nox (1851).
On the other hand, Herzen devoted a chapter of Byloe i dumy (Part Seven, chapter VII) to Ivan Golovin (1816-90), a fellow emigre, namesake of the hero of Tolstoy's story "The Death of Ivan Ilyich" (1886). One of Golovin's pen-names was Nivolog. There is Van (cf. Van Veen, Ada's protagonist) in Ivan, Vin (Russian spelling of Veen; French for "wine") in Golovin and Log (the Supreme Being on Antiterra) in Nivolog. The name Golovin comes from golova ("head"). The name Herzen comes from Herz (Germ., "heart").
Btw., Golovin was envious that critics compared Lermontov to Goethe. "Why not [compare him] to Platen?" he asked in his Zapiski ("Reminiscences," 1859). Platen = planet. I mentioned Count August von Platen earlier, when speaking of Heinrich Heine, the author of Plateniden (1851). Incidentally, Golovin was a typical Platenid.
Alexey Sklyarenko
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