NP "Speak, Memory"

[Heikki Raudaskoski]

On Thu, 28 Dec 2000, s~Z wrote:

> >From whence did Nabokov get the title _Speak, Memory_? Is it his own
> phrase, or is it taken from some other work of literature, etc.?
> 

If my Memory speaks the right words, the title equals the first 
line of Homer's _Odyssey_. (The words also point to the somewhat
irritating notion that the narrating oldtimer does not have any 
direct and candid relation to the past any longer - which, in a 
way, makes the narrator always already "modern".)


Heikki