tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post7095917876734226670..comments2024-03-27T16:48:21.039-05:00Comments on Wuthering <br>Expectations: Passages from a famous American poemAmateur Reader (Tom)http://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-30347442330621982572010-08-19T22:28:47.059-05:002010-08-19T22:28:47.059-05:00The Gift and Invitation to a Beheading (along with...<i>The Gift</i> and <i>Invitation to a Beheading</i> (along with a few stories) are the cream of the Russian period. He wrote these two masterpeices, and then gave up Russian!Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-53474453148984411622010-08-19T10:08:00.399-05:002010-08-19T10:08:00.399-05:00"Vladimir Nabokov taught me to listen for the..."Vladimir Nabokov taught me to listen for the poetry embedded in prose."<br /><br />Well said. Some of his sentences literally lift off the page for me.<br /><br />The Gift has now been added to my 'soon to be read' list.Brianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11632328198420140293noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-57732436716193375192010-08-18T15:57:36.341-05:002010-08-18T15:57:36.341-05:00Of course, of course! For some reason "Ohio&q...Of course, of course! For some reason "Ohio" was only calling to mine the lakeman, or canalman, or whatever, who wasn't from Ohio at all, but was the only midwesterny thing I could think of.nicolehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17532641082944082516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-4344967948951146252010-08-18T15:53:43.562-05:002010-08-18T15:53:43.562-05:00I stopped too soon. Chapter 78, "Cistern and...I stopped too soon. Chapter 78, "Cistern and Buckets".<br /><br />"Only one sweeter end can readily be recalled--the delicious death of an Ohio honey-hunter, who seeking honey in the crotch of a hollow tree, found such exceeding store of it, that leaning too far over, it sucked him in, so that he died embalmed. How many, think ye, have likewise fallen into Plato's honey head, and sweetly perished there?"<br /><br />Now I don't know what either writer is talking about.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-55756528891897215562010-08-18T15:24:17.158-05:002010-08-18T15:24:17.158-05:00Best. Post. Ever. I have always craved a Nabokov/M...Best. Post. Ever. I have always craved a Nabokov/Melville connection! (And have not read <em>Bend Sinister</em>)<br /><br />The whalemen are a good giveaway, but the line about Queequeg's home even better. At least for someone who's been reading as much Melville as I have. That's some Mardian romance there. Wonder about the Ohio honey hunter.nicolehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17532641082944082516noreply@blogger.com