VNabokov, PF discussion, general.

[Prsamsa at aol.com]

http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nabokov

Well, welcome back, Perry.  Talking about oneself in the third person may be 
a 
sign of Pirate Prentice sun-crazies, it's now 109 degrees in the Valley--, or 
may just be a stab at humor.  

Not having yet confered with Vince on our hosting this section of  Pale Fire, 
 what
chapters again?  (My files are ludicrous= nonexistent)
just thought I'd throw this out.  And finally, something I can sink my teeth 
into,
VN's butterflies that sting like bees.  

And, remembering from my first  reading of PF that I was sure that John Shade
was loosely based on Robert Frost, who was the most famous rhyming poet of 
the
1950's, Could I get directions to a website that features his work, esp. 
later
work?  I get a real clear sense by VN's tone he was holding his nose a little 
when
considering the Puritan dreck that most Eastern poets were putting out, pre-
Black Mountain and pre-plain speech stuff.

but maybe I'm just prejudiced because I've been studying, no glorying in 
non-dreck
poetry since I decided Pound was an interesting hick, stuck on beauty and 
with
no political politesse;   Eliot an anti-Semite and stuck, like Lowell later, 
on his
latent Catholicism;  and really most interesting writers of the modernist era 
were
cummings, WCWilliams and Hart Crane, who died early.

Frost died very late in a storied and finally celebrified career.  

Perry Sams,
SIG:  whatever.  
whatever
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