EDNOTE. Appeal and Boyd have both pointed to
particular images from magazines as icons of idealized American life (a.k.a.
poshlost').
If you have such images please notify Mr. Brown and
NABOKV-L.
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Sent: Saturday, June 14, 2003 2:01 PM
Subject: Re: The conquering hero?
I need to clarify the following:
"I've seen in this collection what I believe to be
many of the "set piece" images Nabokov may have been inspired by as
"starting points for his own ironic, and more realistic view of American
life...",
Nabokov certainly did not need The Saturday
Evening Post or any other magazine as a "starting point" for anything. I
meant that his "take" on America brilliantly revealed the strange, yet more real
and more beautiful soul, for which Norman
Rockwell's art served as a scrubbed, Sunday dressed, anodyne
commercial.
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Sent: Friday, June 13, 2003 11:50
PM
Subject: Fw: The conquering hero?
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Sent: Monday, June 09, 2003 2:23 AM
Subject: The conquering hero?
The ad which Dolores Haze has hung on her wall ("...a
dark-haired young husband with a kind of drained look in his Irish eyes. He
was modeling a robe by So-and So and holding a bridgelike tray by So-and So,
with breakfast for two".), and Appel has reproduced in his anntotations,
is it available somewhere on the internet - or somewhere else, for that
matter?
And now I'm at it, is René Prinet's "Kreutzer Sonata"
to be found anywhere? The only thing I found was a smudged little thing
called "The Kiss", which fits with the description given by V.N. in Appel's
notes ("an ill-groomed girl pianist rising like a wave from her stool after
completing the duo, and being kissed by a hirsute violinist").
Best wishes
Ole Nyegaard, Aarhus, Denmark.