Tuesday, July 11, 2023
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For some illuminating remarks on Kinbotean annotation, see
Chapter 6 (Nabokov, Lowry, Orwell) of The Wreath of Wild Olive ,
by Mihai Spariosu.
(Published by State University of New York Press,
© 1997 State University of New York.)
NB : The author of the report below is not the same person as
the author of this journal, who is known as Steven H. Cullinane.
See also this journal on the above Sunday at Little Gidding date.
A Harvard student* attempts to summarize Nabokov’s aesthetics —
“Take ‘Pale Fire,’ his 1962 poem-as-novel
bursting with butterfly as theme:
‘I can do what only a true artist can do —
pounce upon the forgotten butterfly of revelation …
see the web of the world,
and the warp and the weft of that web.’ “
“True artist” here refers to Kinbote, not Nabokov.
* Tessa K.J. Haining, Harvard Crimson Contributing Opinion Writer.
Tessa K.J. Haining ’23 lives in Adams House. Her column appears on
alternate Fridays. December 11, 2020.
New York Times online headline this afternoon —
King Michael of Romania Is Dead at 96
See as well . . .
Log24 posts on Bucharest.
"Pardon me. J'adoube."
— The Consul as he fastens his fly in Malcolm Lowry's classic
novel, Under the Volcano , the Garden of Eden scene.
I, on the other hand, adobe.
Musical accompaniment . . .
"Sleight of hand and twist of fate . . . ." — "With or Without U"
A music producer pawns his current drum device
and acquires a demonic 1970s machine.
Related material —
This post was suggested by a remark made during the filming
of "Edge of Tomorrow," by a Log24 post on the new Nolan film
about Oppenheimer, and by the work of a different Edge:
"… a reality that only my notes can provide."
— Kinbote in Nabokov's novel Pale Fire
For Holocaust Remembrance Day —
Little reportedly died at 79 on Jan. 7.
“Mr. Little submitted the manuscript for ‘Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone’
to 12 publishers. He received 12 rejections in response, before selling it for £2,500,
or about $3,400 (the equivalent of about $5,800 today). It was a meager amount,
but his genius was in the details: He sold only the rights to publish it in Britain and
the Commonwealth, and he asked for high royalties.” — Clay Risen, New York Times
Leachman reportedly died at 94 today.
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein : And it was you… who left my grandfather’s
book out for me to find.
Frau Blücher : Yes.
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein : So that I would…
Frau Blücher : Yes.
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein : Then you and Victor were…
Frau Blücher : YES. YES. Say it. He vas my… BOYFRIEND!
In the spirit of Kinbote…
The real Frau Blücher was of course Hannah Arendt,
whose boyfriend was Martin Heidegger.
Cf. a Log24 post of April 10, 2017 —
| From “Heidegger for Passover”
“Propriation1 gathers the rift-design2 of the saying — p. 415 of Heidegger‘s Basic Writings , “Das Ereignis versammelt den Aufriß der Sage — Heidegger, Weg zur Sprache 1. “Mirror-Play of the Fourfold” |
* De Corpore had a negative effect on Hobbes’s scholarly reputation.
The inclusion of a claimed solution for squaring the circle, an apparent
afterthought rather than a systematic development, led to an extended
pamphlet war in the Hobbes-Wallis controversy. — Wikipedia
Another afterthought, in the style of Kinbote —
A search in this journal for Peter M. Neumann
yields a link to Transformations over a bridge (1983 Aug. 16).
| From “Nabokov’s Crosswords of Composition,” by Rebecca Freeh-Maciorowski, a paper presented at NEMLA, dated 15 October 2014 — “In a way, Nabokov’s entire oeuvre might be built upon one all-encompassing ‘crossword,’ a possibility raised by W.W. Rowe when he writes ‘Words and phrases seem faintly but undeniably to catch many others in the prism of their associations and connotations, almost as if Nabokov’s entire oeuvre were planned from the very start’ (viii). Turning to Pale Fire , the work of Simon Rowberry provides evidence of a whole network of ‘themed entries’ within this novel, what Rowberry refers to as ‘the novel’s promiscuous intertextuality.’ Alternately, the points and coordinates that Nabokov refers to constitute the composition’s ‘checked cells.’ The checked cells are the basic mechanism of the crossword puzzle; essentially, they are the guiding force of the entire puzzle, controlling both the construction and solution. These are the cells within the crossword puzzle in which two words intersect. In Nabokov’s compositional crossword, the ‘checked cells’ are those points which combine disparate entities, places of intersection, where objects and themes converge.” Rowe, W.W., Nabokov’s Deceptive World , New York University Press, 1971. Rowberry, Simon, “Pale Fire as a Hypertextual Network.” 22nd ACM Hypertext Conf., Eindhoven, Netherlands. 6-9 June 2011. Web. |
The Rowberry date appears to be, specifically, 8 June 2011:
A Kinbote note — See also this journal on 8 June 2011.
Update of 3:03 PM ET the same day —
In keeping with Kinbote’s character as an unreliable narrator . . .
Rowberry’s Eindhoven slides indicate he spoke on 9 June 2011.
See as well the Log24 post “Historical Fiction” from 9 June 2011.
(This morning's Text and Pretext, continued)
"… a reality that only my notes can provide."
— Kinbote in Nabokov's novel Pale Fire
Click the above remarks on screws for another perspective on reality.
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