Nose Operation
Andrew Dinn
andrew at cee.hw.ac.uk
Tue Jun 25 08:24:23 CDT 1996
Brian D. McCary writes:
> Side question: Could this have been the inspiration for Gogol's "The
> Nose?" I always thought that the loss of a nose was a very peculiar
> idea, but if happened to someone Gogol knew of heard of, it could
> certainly have suggested the rest of the story.
The above being in response to an account of mediaeval plastic
surgery, the nose which dropped off would have been a replacement for
an already missing nose. So, the noseless conundrum still attends its
Oedipus.
And I think Gogol's problem was that he was one facial adornment short
of a fizzog.
Andrew Dinn
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