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Subject:
RE: [NABOKV-L] Dan's smelly cicerone, Bohemian lady,
Desdemonia in Ada |
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From:
Barrie Akin <ba@taxbar.com> |
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Date:
1/15/2014 6:16 AM |
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To:
'Vladimir Nabokov Forum' <NABOKV-L@listserv.ucsb.edu> |
Dear
List
Alexey
Sklyarenko cites:-
'Oh, Van, oh Van, we did not love her
[Lucette] enough.
That's
whom you should have married,
the one sitting feet up, in ballerina black, on the
stone balustrade, and then everything would
have been all right - I would have stayed with you both in Ardis
Hall, and instead of that happiness, handed out gratis, instead
of all that we teased
her to death!' (5.6)
[Emphasis added by me]
Compare
PF, Canto III, Lines 576-579:
“…..
And also blond
But
with a touch of tawny in the shade,
Feet
up, knees clasped, on a stone balustrade
The
other sits…”
And
lines 585-586:
“And
she, the second love, with instep bare
In
ballerina black….”
Interesting
that VN uses the same image in both works.
Barrie
Akin