CANTO ONE D. Fowler/ for Jasper

[cfalbert]

  You asked yesterday why Nabokov felt compelled to "rhyme"....here is a standard explanation for the use of the heroic couplet....

  "Here it is especially apparent that the use of couplets, with their closure, surety and sense of completeness, undescores that sense of control, frequently vivible control, which Nab.s work always gives."

  Douglas Fowler - Reading Nabokov pg.112

  It just dawned on me that the use of this particular scheme contrasts nicely with the ambiguous codes it looks to communicate.....


  love,
  cfa
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://waste.org/pipermail/pynchon-l/attachments/20030728/d1831788/attachment.html>