NPPF Canto One: first stanza

[charles albert]

Fowler does.....it's just another element of the same essay.......I'll get
typing......


love,
cfa
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "jbor" <jbor at bigpond.com>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Monday, July 28, 2003 6:38 PM
Subject: Re: NPPF Canto One: first stanza


> on 29/7/03 2:32 AM, cfalbert at calbert at hslboxmaster.com wrote:
>
> > You argue that "consonant dissonance" (or some such thing) works against
Nab.s
> > purposes in the opening lines.......in the first couplet, there are TWO
> > "conspicuous" consonants, the "x" in waxwing  and the "p" in
> > windowpane........these two hardly a dissonant stew generate........in
fact,
> > as MalignD suggests, and I and Boyd insist  - these lines scan
exquisitely....
>
> I noted that the phrase "smudge of ashen fluff" unleashes dissonance to no
> worthwhile effect. And it's the prosaic "I was ... ", "I was ... ", which
> mars what could otherwise have been a very poetic image. Imo.
>
> But thanks for the quote from Fowler. You had previously written that
Fowler
> suggests that Nabokov had intended to respond to the excesses of Eliot in
> composing Shade's 'Pale Fire', but perhaps that isn't the case.
>
> best
>
>