VV(18): Satin

[Dave Monroe]

"On the small stage, which faced a dining room filled only with stacked 
tables and chairs, and lit by uncertain August daylight, came the 
confrontation with Satin." (V., C. 14, Sec. i, p. 395)

"By the cover of Le Soleil, the Orleanist morning paper, it was 24 July 
1913" (p. 393) aside ("uncertain August daylight") ... long taxi ride from 
the Gare du Nord to that "cabaret in the rue Germaine Pilon, near Boulevard 
Clichy" (p. 395)? "Uncertain," indeed ...

Well, in the grand scheme whereby ...

L'Enlevement des Vierges Chinoise = Le Sacre du Printemps

Vladimir Porcepic = Igor Stravinsky

Itague = Serge Diaghilev

Then ...

Satin = Vaslav Nijinsky, "The Eighth Wonder of the World," "The Vestris of 
the North," "The God of Dance" (pace Michael Flatley) ...

http://webserver.rcds.rye.ny.us/id/Dance/nijinsky.jpg

http://www.britannica.com/eb/article?eu=57229&tocid=0

http://www.bartleby.com/65/ni/Nijinsky.html

http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/n/nijinsky-diary.html

Not to be confused with Satine (Nicole Kidman, undoubtedly to be spoofed as 
"Saltine" in the inevitable Mad Magazine parody) from Moulin Rouge, though, 
if I've got my French vowels correct (and they've been corrected constantly 
since that movie came out), sounding not altogether unlike (except for the 
vowel sounds ...) the English Satan.  Not to mention a certain fabric ...

http://www.britannica.com/eb/article?eu=67545&tocid=0

Note, by the way, that Nijinsky danced in an American production of Richard 
Strauss' "tone poem," Till Eulenspeigel ("Owlglass," as in ...) ...

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