"We all are, in a sense, poets, madam"
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- "help me Will" ~Shakespeare, William Butler Yeats, William Carlos William
Jana:
- last lines of poem are setting up his death~ "and through the flowing... up the lane"
- Ulalume by EAP- lumination- 'on electricity' by shade
- in the movie version of Lolita, he is reading her this poem!
- The Quest for the Crown Jewels
- Tanyk: a place in Russia
- the method is more important then where you really are
- Hamlet and Pale Fire
- Shade-> Hades
- 'et in arcadia ego': latin for 'even in eden am I'
- death is even in eden or 'arcadia'
- arcadia= Zembla?
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Cosmic -> Comic: only one s is the difference
Kobold: a goblin
Robert Frost poem 'A Winter Eden'Art is the antidote of mortality
"He waited... their game" pg 132
Ultima Thule: The far north, Zembla?
'The Dark Materials' has a far northern place where Lord Asriel split the worlds in two
gradus ad Parnassus: where the muses live
Shade looks like:
- Hogarthian
- p297 descriptions:
- Samuel Johnson
- neanderthal
- cafeteria hag
- Judge Goldworth: a 'Medusa locked hag'
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PF 2nd Reading:
- Kinbote loves J. Shade
- Zembla vs reality
- Shadows took over so they had to flee
- Shade shot before finishing poem
- Gradus= terminator
- The Prisoner of Zembla
- real killer is Jack Grey: Jacob Gradus: glass maker from Zembla
- Degree: Shade
- contrapuntal
- Does Kinbote know it's not true like Don Q?
- Nabokov's quartet: all ghost stories
- "The Vane Sisters"
acrostics: "I could isolate, consciously, little. Everything seemed blurred, yellow-clouded, yielding nothing tangible. Her inept acrostics, maudlin evasions, theopathies - every recollection formed ripples of mysterious meaning. Everything seemed yellowly blurred, illusive, lost." ~Vlad from 'Tyrants Destroyed and Other Short Stories'
The ACROSTIC IS: ICICLES BY CYNTHIA METER FROM ME, SYBIL
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