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The Strange Case of Nabokov and W.F. Kirby | Kobaltana
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A Vladimir Nabokov blog. The Strange Case of Nabokov and W.F. Kirby. One of the perils and pleasures of Nabokov research comes from dipping a toe into what appears to be no more than a puddle, only to find a much deeper cavern lurking beneath the small ripples of the surface. This is one such case:. Kinbote’s note to line 79 gives us a line from Shade (“The evening is the time to praise the day”) which Kinbote asserts was inspired by his recitation of. In an anonymous English translation (Kirby’s? But th...
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Discretion and Arrest Power — Crooked Timber
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Discretion and Arrest Power. July 21, 2009. One source that may possibly help illuminate the controversy over Skip Gates’ arrest is Peter Moskos’ book,. Cop in the Hood. Of Gates’ arrest. Or other responding units. Update: All charges against Gates have now been dropped. 072109 at 5:28 pm. 072109 at 5:37 pm. Here’s my question: in a free society, why should it even be conceivable. 072109 at 6:02 pm. First, I can’t believe this hasn’t been referenced yet, but it seems appropriate:. Second, I’d like ...
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Making Light: Open thread 207
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Language, fraud, folly, truth, knitting, and growing luminous by eating light. Back to previous post: The SPOILER Affinities. Go to Making Light's front page. Forward to next post: The building of the centerpiece. Via RSS) to this post's comment thread. (What does this mean? A quick introduction.). August 5, 2015. Posted by Abi Sutherland at 04:44 PM * 961 comments. You might think that. I couldn’t possibly comment. August 05, 2015, 05:39 PM. Never done that before). August 05, 2015, 06:06 PM. In fact, W...
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Arcadia, night, a cloud, Pan, and the moon: August 2013
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Arcadia, night, a cloud, Pan, and the moon. But the song broke up in laughter. Friday, August 30, 2013. First something obvious, and then a meta-comment. One thing I sometimes post are duh-moments: instances of the obvious that weren't obvious to me. Here's one from the other day. In Paradise Lost. Adam describes to Raphael his first experience of experience, his finding himself in the world. There he was:. But who I was, or where, or from what cause,. My tongue obeyed, and readily could name. So my meta...
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Arcadia, night, a cloud, Pan, and the moon: April 2015
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Arcadia, night, a cloud, Pan, and the moon. But the song broke up in laughter. Wednesday, April 1, 2015. I am wondering whether Shakespeare invented the Freudian slip. Did other people before Shakespeare represent mistakes on stage? I am thinking of the way Shakespeare has people make everyday mistakes (the mistakes of everyday life), as in certain kinds of forgetfulness. Courteous lord, one word. Sir, you and I must part, but that's not it:. Sir, you and I have loved, but there's not it;. KENT I am come.
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Arcadia, night, a cloud, Pan, and the moon: Hamlet's messes
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Arcadia, night, a cloud, Pan, and the moon. But the song broke up in laughter. Thursday, June 7, 2012. I've been watching the Richard Burton DVD of Hamlet. Directed by John Gielgud), and so thinking hard about the play again. Of course it's always a fool's errand to try to say something about Hamlet. And about the "To be or not to be" soliloquy, forsooth, la! But maybe also an exercise worth attempting. It's a mildly metatheatrical thing: you see the actor. In Proust), and fine is dandy. After all. B...
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Arcadia, night, a cloud, Pan, and the moon: Sweets to the sweet
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Arcadia, night, a cloud, Pan, and the moon. But the song broke up in laughter. Wednesday, December 24, 2014. Sweets to the sweet. I've been loving, for a long time, the way Shakespeare uses the word sweet. Two obvious instances. In Richard II. The Queen, puzzled over her own free-floating sadness, says:. Why I should welcome such a guest as grief. Save bidding farewell to so sweet a guest. As my sweet Richard. And then Edgar's amazing, ambivalent lament:. O our lives' sweetness. Rather than die at once.
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Arcadia, night, a cloud, Pan, and the moon: May 2013
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Arcadia, night, a cloud, Pan, and the moon. But the song broke up in laughter. Friday, May 17, 2013. I am thinking of some of the greatest short moments of literary criticism I know. I would mention Twitter, but that would corrupt the idea, and besides you tend to need the quotation, the literary sample, before the remark. Herewith a few such moments:. A scrap from Dickinson, about Antony's great speech in Antony and Cleopatra. Since Cleopatra died,. I have lived in such dishonour, that the gods. Proust ...
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Arcadia, night, a cloud, Pan, and the moon: November 2013
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Arcadia, night, a cloud, Pan, and the moon. But the song broke up in laughter. Tuesday, November 5, 2013. By way of a longish placeholder, and an observation about parties. 8220;Song” The song tells us of our old way of living,. Of life in former times. Fragrance of florals,. How things merely ended when they ended,. Of beginning again into a sigh. Later. Some movement is reversed and the urgent masks. Speed toward a totally unexpected end. Like clocks out of control. Is this the gesture. Placeholder: I'...
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Arcadia, night, a cloud, Pan, and the moon: Preferences
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Arcadia, night, a cloud, Pan, and the moon. But the song broke up in laughter. Tuesday, October 7, 2014. We has them. I want a cheezburger, and I can has cheezburger, but I don't want to want one. I would like my love to die. And the rain to be falling on the graveyard. And on me walking the streets. Mourning the first and last to love me. I long for Kyoto. 8221; (Wilde) What more can one want than to be unsatisfied? I stopped and bought us coffee from a new place, before we went back to the HQ. Not a sc...
