Impenetrable! Halfway up the
hill
I’d pause in thrall of their delirious
trill.
That’s
Dr. Sutton’s light. That’s the Great
Bear.
120 A
thousand years ago five minutes were
Equal to forty ounces of fine sand.
Outstare the stars. Infinite foretime and
Infinite aftertime: above your head
...........................................................................................................................
On suddenly discovering that you
Are now a young and vulnerable toad
Plump in the middle of a busy road,
565
Or a bear cub beneath a burning
pine,
Or a book mite in a revived divine.
Time means...
Kinbote: Line 71 ( Parents)...at the portable altars of a vast number of hobbies, from the study of book mites to bear hunting, and could reel off Macbeth from beginning to end during hikes....
Ada:
Van reached the third lawn, and the bower, and carefully inspected the stage prepared for the scene, ‘like a provincial come an hour too early to the opera after jogging all day along harvest roads with poppies and bluets catching and twinkle-twining in the wheels of his buggy’ (Floeberg’s Ursula).
A black bear with bright russet locks (the sun had reached its first parlor window) stood awaiting him. Yes — the Z gene had won
‘By the way,’ he said, ‘let’s-fix the date of your visit. Her letter changes my schedule. Let’s have dinner at Ursus next weekend. I’ll get in touch with you.’
Knowing how fond his sisters were of Russian fare and Russian floor shows, Van took them Saturday night to ‘Ursus,’ the best Franco-Estonian restaurant in Manhattan Major
(‘Ursus,’ Lucette in glistening green, ‘Subside,
agitation of passion,’ Flora’s bracelets and breasts, the whelk of
Time).
There seem to be various ramifications concerning Flaubert, giant Russia and the Bear (also symbollic for Berlin, Berne...) , time and constellations, Ursa Major... I'd forgotten Johnson!
Jansy