Just one word
Kevin F Crosby-1
crosb003 at maroon.tc.umn.edu
Fri Nov 19 08:10:36 CST 1993
I'm new here, and there's one thing that has been bugging me for a while,
and that is the origin of the title _Vineland_. I haven't read any
definitive account of where it came from. My two favorite ideas right now
are related to the name Audrey Vinelander in Nabokov's _Ada_, and the Anna
Livia Plurabelle chapter of _Finnegans Wake_, where the word Vineland
appears (the word owlglassy is also in that chapter, I think it's
"owlglassy bicycles").
So has the source or reason behind the title been pinned down?
Kevin Crosby
crosb003 at maroon.tc.umn.edu
612/625-2356
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