Dear List,
I recently received an admonition from Dmitri
Nabokov on the subject "Conjuror" :
THAT'S JUST AS WELL, JANSY --
LEAVE IT AT THAT, AND LET NABOKOV DO THE CONJURING.
DN
Now, on the matter of Woolworth's Lolita Bed we got
another interesting comment: MY
FATHER'S SHADE WISHES HAPPY TOSSING AND TURNING, ESPECIALLY TO PARENTS NAMED
HUMBERT AND CHARLOTTE.
DN
I can only deduce that
Nabokov's "shade" and "conjurors" are among us, together with "devices,
like elves or gnomes"...
After debating with myself
if I should silently and prudently just sit and watch the
unfolding spectacle, I concluded that I might as well venture into
what John Rea described as "sheer speckulations" to consider
if we are,
all of us, being invited to share in
the (leaking) overall plot of TOOL!
Here is what I underlined
from Shrayer's quotes of Khodasevich:
" ...Sirin becomes
predominantly the artist of form, of literary device...Sirin not only masks or
hides his devices,...but rather
reveals them like a conjurer...Here, I feel, lies the key to Sirin. His
works are inhabited not only by dramatis personae, but also countless devices
which - like elves or gnomes- ...carry out enormous tasks.. I actually think, or am almost sure that Sirin...will one day open
up and present us with a ruthless satirical portrayal of a
writer..."