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Don't go to this site to find out more:

http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?t=384390

Indirectly related or not, I'll Kinbote a passage.

Aside: I was watching the history channel today (while in the middle of doing drawl human nutrition), when on came a segment about WWII (that means world war two), and Hitler's tactics during the winter of '44 (1944). Hitler waged his war during the winter purposefully so as to dissuade the use of American planes when he was taking territories. He wanted drizzly, foggy, rainy weather. He would set up all his mustached schemes months in advance, planning and planning and planning and (To much?) planning but he would not set forth the orders until he knew that the conditions were optimal. Even after loosing the Atlantic Sea Battle (this will wrap up, I promise) to us, Awesome Americans, he left a few of his old U-boats in that Ocean for the soul reason of watching the weather fronts, watching the skies, so as to relay back to old hypocritical half-the-man-he-wanted-to-be Hitler, when the conditions would be correct.

(Did you go to the site?)

(Claws aside, really?)

Now let us take a look at John Shade's first canto, starting at verse 183

The Little scissors I am holding are

A dazzling synthesis of sun and star.

I stand before the window and I pare

My fingernails and vaguely am aware

Of certain flinching likenesses: the thumb,

Our grocer's son; the index, lean and glum

College astronomer Starover Blue;

The Middle fellow, a tall priest I knew;

The feminine fourth finger, an old flirt;

and little pinky clinging to her skirt.

And I make mouths as I snip off the thin

Strips of what Aunt Maud used to call "scarf-skin"

Meet Maud

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAUD_Committee

(Military Application of Uranium Detonation)

And if you happen to read the little Russian Interest's Section

you will find a link to Igor Kurchatov

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kurchatov#Career)

whom happened to study physics and Naval Engineering.

hmmmm.......

And later on we run into Igor in Canto number 3, starting at verse 623;

We heard cremationists guffaw and snort

At Grabermann's denouncing the Retort

As detrimental to the birth of wraiths.

We all avoided criticizing faiths.

The great Starover Blue reviewed the role

Planets had played as landfalls of the soul,

The fate of beasts was pondered. A Chinese

Discanted on the etiquette at teas

With ancestors, and how far up to go.

I tore apart the fantasies of Poe.

And dealt with childhood memories of strange

Nacreous gleams beyond the adult's range.

Among our auditors were a young priest

and an old Communist. Iph could at least

Compete with churches and the party line.

And as full as that passage is of what only Russians seem to be able to write, I'm afraid I'm not going to touch anymore of it tonight.

oh yeah, Kurchatov has a crater on the moon named after him.

Pale Fire: Day 1; In A Distant Northern Land.

"Where's The Party?"

Nabokovians! I certainly hope you've all picked a waxwing to accompany you as we shift the curtaining of the veil.



Lets Shuffle The Cards!



Lets do a little five-finger discounting,



Let us pull the blank from our own eye before chastising Charles Kinbote.





Pale Dy Definition!


a stake or picket, as of a fence.


an enclosing or confining barrier; enclosure.


an enclosed area.


limits; bounds: outside the pale of his jurisdiction.


a district or region within designated bounds.


(initial capital letter) Also called English Pale, Irish Pale. a district in eastern Ireland

included in the Angevin Empire of King Henry II and his successors.


an ordinary in the form of a broad vertical stripe at the center of an escutcheon.


Shipbuilding. a shore used inside to support the deck beams of a hull under construction.
–verb (used with object)


to enclose with pales; fence.


to encircle or encompass.—Idiom


beyond the pale, beyond the limits of propriety, courtesy, protection, safety, etc.: Their public conduct is certainly beyond the pale





Eugene! You're a Genius!



Everyone should think thoughts towards reading Richard Powers powerful novel Generosity. It's about the problem of being too happy; The Happiness Gene!



Beauty and Pity, Beauty and Pity, Beauty and Pity.



The Password is?



Nabokov wishes to creates a norm that centers around Generosity, compassion, and......?



Really? "Really?"



BLOG ASSIGNMENTS STUDENTS!



Read everyones papers, shoes which fit you best, decided upon a pair, and then take a stroll in Kinbote's loafers and leave a commentary on that which best suits you.





Now to more "important" questions (yeah important?)



What is the Elementary meaning of Pale Fire?



Level One: About a poem and a guy who really likes the poem.



Something is rotten in the state of Zembla....... (A distant northern land, of course)



"really"



Fundamentals are the TEXT and INTERPRETATION



It is a Foreword (useless to the poem, purpose filled to to the critic), A Poem ( In Four Canto's with Heroic Rhyming Couplets), 5 sets of twins (All nine of them), A commentary (Very descriptive and on point), and an index (index).



Shuffling....



Shuffling.....



Shuffling...



To This Poem we now must Turn.



You always believe the First Person you here.



Aside: Our Waxwings can be seen if there happens to be autumn.



We Are in a world of UNRELIABLE NARRATORS!



Living On (pale)- beyond the Bars of Life



Make at top 6 list of things that annoy you about Kinbote (He just so happens not to annoy me, but make me laugh)



(So I'm not going to make a list) (You should find him funny too)



Kinbote admits his Craziness (CAROUSELS HERE CAROUSELS THERE)



Popian Lines=(Parallels)=Shadian Lines



Interpret Kinbote Style



This book isn't about John Shade (Well on level 1 it is). It's About Kinbote's interpretations. (my interpretation)



(Literally anyone in literature kindles this blue flame)



Kinbote is correct- this is about Zembla (not the death of Hazel!)(?)(!) ;)

"You can only tell your own story."



Look up Pale! UNDERLINE ANYTHING TO DO WITH PALE!

'Parnassians'

The Lepidopterolgoist Vladimir Nabokov, who is loathed and loved for his linguistic tricks that spill across his infamous novels Lolita, Pnin, Pale fire, And Speak Memory amongst others, is so fascinating to read and reread that when writing you cannot help but slip a few snips of his style into you’re writing; perhaps a few hidden metaphors and meanings to mime his thoughts as your own. So it should come as no surprise to any Nabokovian that his own autobiography would be plum full of precise parallels. In fact, to know this, you need only read the back of Vintage Internationals version of Speak Memory.
Though I doubt ‘Parnassians’ will ever be associated with Nabokov as Waterproof is with Humbert Humbert, our nymphean obsessed hero, looking into the stories that these two words dredge up in our subjects minds shall show a carefully concocted correlation.
In Lolita, rewinding from the two syllables waterproof escaping Charlotte’s fishy mouth, we watch as a gum-smiling Chestnut Mare slowly transfigures into Jean Farlows moon walking with easel and things back towards her center of concealment where she had been spying upon our nymphette lusting hero and his semi-nude wife. Now in forward motion, as Jean is talking to our hero, she mentions how, “She always felt a traitor to Cavall and Melampus…..” Melampus which just happens to be the name of the Greek Hunter Actaeons Hound that viciously rips him apart after he becomes transfigured into a Stag for looking lustfully upon Artemis, the Greek goddess of virginity, as she bathes in a pool amongst other girls (Lolita, 88-9).
Following Farlow and Actaeon in accordance with the water and women Nabokov’s own life seems to have a bit of a Humbertish rub-off. Under similar situations to Actaeon, Nabokov, while a child in Russia hunting for Parnassius Mnemosyne’s, or Parnassians, in the forest Vladimir mistakenly comes across his love interest Polenka bathing nude with four or five other children. He “crept away in a dismal haze of disgust and desire,” but as he is leaving the spring he spouts a description of Polenka that can only be described as “ a nymphean incarnation of her pitiful beauty that were better left alone (Speak, 210)”;
“I saw a strange Polenka shiver and squat on the boards of the half-broken wharf, covering her breasts against the east wind with her crossed arms, while with the tip of her tongue she taunted her pursuers.”
Polenka also just happens to be a Russian spelling of Polina. Polina is the Russian derivative of the Greek name “appolinaria”, which just happens to be Apollo. Polina just happens to mean “one who belongs to Apollo”. For anyone who hasn’t brushed up on their Greek mythology lately, Apollo and Artemis are twin siblings of the Greek gods Zeus and Leto. The “Parnassians’ that Vlad just happens to be hunting for when he stumbles across “one who belongs to Apollo” just happen to nicknamed Clouded Apollo’s.
With happenings justified the realization that the coincidences in Nabokov’s non-fiction are as fast-firing as those in his fiction makes you ponder the possibility that perhaps the “reality” that Nabokov wishes to be left in is a riddle. Perhaps primates drawing bars are really stories bare of enchantment. Maybe Nabokov finds the need to fill in the landscape. But I think he just can’t help himself.

Felt Like Church On Christmas or Easter.

And Thus The Class Room Fills.

Students (studious and not), Nabokovians, Amandatarians, Sexsonians,

Stylists and Murderers alike,

The Jury, The Gentlemen and Gentlewomen, The readers and writers, The copier and scribers,

Here is our notes upon the test that Sexson says he knows best. Thirty-five of ours, for Fifteen of his, but I'm sure his rules will go amiss.

Here's your list:


First!

What is the Name of the Only Hotel (in Part 1 mind you) that our Humbert Humbert and his Lolita stay upon a comfortable double bed?

-The Enchanted Hunters (Two, mind you)

Second!

342! Houses with spouses, and hotels with pedophiles.

Third!

page 31. What is it that Logicians Loathe And Poets Love?

Fourth!

Page 9. You Can Always Count a fancy prose stylist for a murderer....?

Fifthly!

Memorize (Memorize?) the last line (Yes Memorize) of Lolita (Yet not Lolita).

Sixth!

Page 437. Nabokovians! What does Nabokov think he was "really". And you would say,
"a landscape painter."

Seventh!

Who Can Recognize a nymphette? An artist and a Madman (Where does this place you?)

Eighth!

Seeing Colors as Letters, or Letters as Numbers, Or coloring in the lines by the number is? Synisthesia (I truly don't know exactly)

Ninth!

Mustache!

Tenthly!

We're to Nabokov, as Quilty is to Humbert! (How does this make you feel?) (Used?)

Eleventh!

Students! What does Nabokov think about Sleep? Its Repulsive, (and so seems the question!)

Twelfth!

Dolores, Our Lo, Lolita, Ms. Haze, The Dramatist, The Mater Dolorosa! The Mother Mary. The Sorrowful Sevens Sins........

Thirteenth!

What are the names of Jean (Gene!) Farlows dogs! Cavall and Melampus. not melon pus.

Thirteen.1!

How is the story of Acteon and Dian significant

Fifteenthly!

What do you need to pass this class? Memory, Imagination, Artistic Sense, and A dictionary (almost didn't something Nabokovian, but I've been warned once)

Sixteenth!

Nobokovians! something you must know! The Three things that make a writer well;

Storyteller,
Teacher
Enchanter

But in What order? hmmm....

Aside: What's the chance of Coincidence this class around?

Seventeenth! (The Hump!) (The Hump!)

Read James The Rat's Blog (That's this blog) ( I truly hope you know that) (Maybe I'll hint what later for you taker of test only;)

Eighteenth!

What color is the ball that the cocker spaniel is playing with? it's Red. Aside: Nabokov loves white lies. Not that it matters if they're white.)

Nineteenth!

Describe Humbert's Forearms in 2 Words! Hairy and Masculine (Not Sexy)



(Really it's not Sexy)

Twentiethly!

WATERPROOF! O Face! Not Office Space. O! O!

Twenty-first!

Name one of the plays written by Clare Quilty; (I'm not making these up)

The Little Nympth

The Lady that Loved Lightning (Picnics?)

Fatherly Love

The Strange Mushroom (?)

Twenty-second!

How did Charlotte Haze Die? (Now according to SS I told it incorrectly in my blog, but i find not the blog that spurts it wrong.) So read and find for yourself.

Twenty-third!

Reality

Twenty-fourth!

(Picnic, Lightning) don't forget the,

Twenty-fifthly!

What is the difference between satire and parody? Satire is a lesson, Parody is a game.

Twenty-sixth!

In "Speak Memory", What did Nabokov's mother like to collect from the woods?

Super powers in Mario Brothers anyone?

Twenty-seventh!

What is the brats favorite order of genres of films? MUSICAlS (Slapping out one finger), UNDERWORLDERS (Finger Two), and Westerners (The Third Finger slaps lips to silence)

Twenty-eighth!

Who is Jutting Jaw? Who is Dick Tracy

Twenty-Ninth!

Metafiction. Lolita, Don Quixote, And The French Lieutenants Woman.

Thiriethly!

Taxovich

Thirty-First!

(Spoiler! O Faces, Thousand Lakes, and Acteon)

The Casbian Varber, The Classlist, Taxovich, and Our sweet Lo playing Tennis all never made it into the film version! yet they're Vivian Darkbloom's favorites.

Thirty-second!

"The very geometry of reality is what Lolita seemed to represent when she was playing tennis."
-This makes a fool of everything I've ever ridden. ;)

Thirty-Third!

The imitated behavior! Read Page (%.

Thirty-Fourth!

The age that certain artist and madmen find their lovers? 9-14

Thirty-Fifthly! LAST! THANK YOU!

What is the one region where nymphets not found. (Don't say Montana) (You'll be wrong?) (What?)

Humbert Polanski

We seem to have ourselves a modern day Humbert Humbert

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091006/ap_on_re_eu/eu_switzerland_polanski

So great