Sklyarenko: Pferd is, of
course, German for "horse" and belongs to the "equine" theme in Ada
(according to Lucette's mother Marina, "the Zemskis were terrible
rakes (razvratniki), one of them loved small girls, and
another raffolait d'une de ses juments and had her tied up in a special
way... when he dated her in her stall:" 1.37).
JM: I never cease to wonder at the marvels of the internet
- like they were graphically, almost precociously, presented in
Spielberg's "AI," and after one learns how to question its
peculiar wizard of Oz- which offer to us various links to the subject
Sklyarenko initiated when he allowed metonimy to take its couse to evolve from a
surname (Pferd) to the animal (horse) For one of King
Arthur's dogs's name is "Cavall" and it also
describes a "horse."
Look at what I read about King Arthur's Cavall:
On the art uric stories appears Cavall, king Arthur's dog that
always used to leave its fingerprints marked on the rocks in Wales.www.guideofdogs.com/.../dog_myths_and_legends.html
There are other dogs mentioned by Nabokov, about which
I read in the same address:
1.According to the Yorkshire legend, in the north of England, any
person who sees Barghest, a monstrous dog with really huge claws and
teeth that appears only at night, irremediably dies a little after. In Wales,
the dog is called Gwyllgi (the dog of the darkness) and has red eyes and
on Man Island, Mauthe Dog, and it is a demon with the shape of a Spaniel
that appears around the PeelCastle. It is probable that Arthur Conan Doyle took
these phantasmagoric canine apparitions as inspiration to write The
Baskerville's Hound.
2. One of the most famous dogs of the
Greek mythology is Argos, Odyssey's dog. When it came back home, after
the war of Troy, in which he was thought dead for more than 20 years, his loyal
Argos came to his encounter running in order to greet him, but as Odiseo
couldn't reveal his identity, he was forced to ignore the animal, which died
from sorrow that same moment.
The skye-terrier is a favourite with Nabokov, although his family
owned distinguished Dachshunds, such as the Box linneage, and Irina Guadanini
specialized in poodle-trimming. In "Pale Fire", along with Aunt Maud's
enchanted basket that belonged to her old skye-terrier, there are at
least three indirect references to anonymous dogs. There's the one that disturbs
trash cans in the night, and there are Webster's wolf, transformed
by T.S.Eliot into a dog, and James Joyce's fox/dog, which seemed
to me to be linked to Webster's/Eliot's ... and, lo and behold,
there's a scholar who studiously associated them...The page cannot be
copied, but here is the address: "Musical allusions in the works of James
Joyce: early poetry ... - Zack R. Bowen - 1974 - Literary Criticism -
Zack R. Bowen "
A.Sklyarenko also literally formulated the addition of Lucette's fire
and Lucifer's light. Curiously, now returning to Actaeon's dogs (one of the
pair cited in "Lolita"), Lampos means "shining-one" but
Melamp merely indicates the color or the dog's coat (melanos,
black).*
Fairyland recovered?
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* - Actæon’s fifty dogs. Alc (strength), Amaryn’thos (from Amary’thia, in
Eubœa), As’bolos (soot - colour), Ban’os, Bor’eas, Can’ach (ringwood),
Chediæ’tros, Cisse’ta, Co’ran (cropped, crop-eared), Cyllo (halt), Cyllop’ots
(zig-zag runner), Cyp’rios (the Cyprian), Draco (the dragon), Drom’as (the
courser), Dro’mios (seize-’em), Ech’nobas, Eu’dromos (good-runner), Har’pal
(voracious), Harpie’a (tear-’em), Ichnob’at (track-follower), La’bros (furious),
Lacæna (lioness), Lach’n (glossy-coated), Lacon (Spartan), La’don (from Ladon,
in Arca’dia), Lælaps (hurricane), Lampos (shining-one), Leu’cos (grey),
Lycis’ca, Lynce’a, Mach’imos (boxer), Melamp (black), Melanche’t (black-coat),
Melan’ea (black), Menele’a, Molossos (from Molossos), Na’pa (begotten by a
wolf), Nebroph’onos (fawn-killer), Oc’ydroma (swift-runner), Or’esitrophos
(mountain-bred), Ori’basos (mountain - ranger), Pachy’tos (thick-skinned),
Pam’phagos (ravenous), Pœ’menis (leader), Pter’elas (winged), Stricta (spot),
Therid’amas (beast-tamer or subduer), The’ron (savage - faced), Thoös (swift),
U’ranis (heavenly-one). 8
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