[NPPF] Canto Three: The Catholic stuff.. hyewhades

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 >>>HUE is the correct word to use to refer to just the pure
spectrum colors. <<<

You just can't trust that VN is willing to use words 'correctly,' especially
when the word with which we started was 'Hugh.' And your confusion about
denotations and connotations is understandable, as even in ADA there arise
the pertinent questions, "whose hue?" and "Hue or who?" (p.9, Vintage pb)
John Entwhistle, VN, Abbot, and Costello are sharing a Turk's delight and
laughing their asses off. And, if I may interject, there on the same p.9 of
ADA we see reference to another smelly paste, as Van has lost his enjoyment
of the 'perfumed gum of Turkish paste' another name for Turkish Delight (cf,
PF poem, line 224). I find in scanning and tossing much of what has been
written in the name of Nabokov criticism, that it suffers from the same
annoyances as Pynchon criticism, namely that a lot of the text is simply
ignored. This is a familiar tactic in my Christian fundamentalist roots, and
it is as offensive here as it was there. I do realize that to put together a
cohesive statement about these insane and brilliant authors requires some
Occamic shaving, but this grooming exercise is taking place before a mirror,
and the critic is indeed the shadow and the pheasant. So, I have decided to
ignore the great body of Nabokov criticism and fuck around with the text on
my own, creating my own annoyances, reflections and footprints. Speaking of
which, during this week of Canto Three, I would be abdicating my role as a
mandated reporter not to mention line 796, which brings us back to "whose
hue?" There are many answers to this query. One can be found in the bio of
one St. Adelaida (sic), namesake of Ada:

St. Adelaide

Born 931; died 16 December, 999, one of the conspicuous characters in the
struggle of Otto the great to obtain the imperial crown from the Roman
Pontiffs. She was the daughter of Rudolph II, King of Burgundy, who was at
war with Hugh of Provence for the crown of Italy. The rivals concluded a
peace in 933, by which it was stipulated that Adelaide should marry Hugh's
son Lothaire. The marriage took place, however, only fourteen years later;
Adelaide's mother meantime married Hugh.

Oh my, the saint has married her step-brother. More sordid details of
political intrigue and perhaps PF relevance can be found at
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01140c.htm

And while we're enjoying a Frigg's Day stretch, it is also curious that one
of St. Adelaide's daughters (courtesy of her marriage to Otto following the
death of her step-brother) is none other than Maud of Quedlinburg:
http://www.geocities.com/mizzmelisende/woman51.html

It is also simply spine tingling that one of the patron saints of the *death
of children* is St. Maud.
http://www.catholic-forum.com/saints/saintm29.htm

Now please excuse me, I must soak my sphincters.