Dear J:

I think this is a good idea for a paper. I would recommend using Marlowe's
Tamburlaine 1&2 as a comparison from Renaissance England, a laughing Turk
was he, and also Adorno's Dialectic of Enlightenment on the glee of power
expressed most fully in laughter.

Then maybe Frost's poem "they look neither out far nor in deep, but stand
and wait at the shore."




>From: "-IID42 Kandinskij @27+" <death@zaphod.terminal.org>
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>Subject: RHIZOME_RAW: a riddle from Nabokov.. .fwd
>Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 07:43:09 -0700 (PDT)
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>From: Jerdevinjohnson@aol.com
>
>I am reading Vladimir Nabakov's "Pale Fire" as a possible topic for a
>master's thesis ( tentative) and have a question about one of his passages.
>It reads as follows:
>
>"So why join in the vulgar laughter? Why
>Scorn a hereafter none can verify:
>The Turk's delight, the future lyres, the talks
>With Socrates and Proust in cypress walks,
>The seraphs with his six flamingo wings,
>And Flemish hells with porcupines and things?
>It isn't that we dream too wild a dream:
>The trouble is we do not make it seem
>Sufficiently unlikely; for the most
>We can think up is a domestic ghost." (lines 221-230)
>
>[snip]
>
>
>
>+ If the reader will keep me company I shall be glad.
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