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well, i'm not sure, but in sawdust and diamonds, the line "though my wrists and my waste seemed so easy to break, still my dear, i'd have walked you to the edge of the water" always reminded me of the part in "glory" where he's with the girl he loses his virginity to on the beach. he says something about grabbing her and kissing her, but doing it all clumsy and something and she tells him something along the lines of "careful! you'll break me!" or something like that. sorry, it's been ages haha but i feel like i might have read that here in a similar thread once upon a time. all i know, is i definitely connect the two now
I'm not a native english speaker, so a lot of times I don't know if the things I hear are references to a specific writer or just common culture. Anyway, here are some thoughts:
- In Autumn, she also sings "a row of silent dove-gray days". Maybe she borrowed that from Nabokov? I remember seeing that in Lolita and The Real Life of Sebastian Knight. - In Sadie, she starts the song calling "Sadie" and ends it saying "my Sadie" - just like Nabokov in Lolita. ("Lolita, light of my fire…"; "And this is the only immortality you and I may share, my Lolita.") - In Have One on Me, she sings "like a cornered rat". I saw that in Lolita too. - In Cosmia, maybe the use of the moth representing or signaling a big change? This is very questionable, so I don't know. Nabokov used that a lot.
There's more, but I don't usually take notes so it's hard to remember.
Huge parenthesis: As for other writers, I think the sequencing of tracks on Ys was maybe inspired by the sequencing of chapters in Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury?
Martin Amis has written that Nabokov's overriding concern was with tyranny. In the novels Bend Sinister and Invitation to a Beheading we meet with tyranny head-on of course, Lolita too may be viewed in this light. But I feel the real tyrant in Nabokov is Time itself. Time strips us of everything eventually: all that we own, all that we love. Nabokov was no stranger to the ravages of this tyrant - his father assassinated, the 16 year old 'Prince' having to flee his native land into exile, never to return. What he attempts to do in his novels - through memory, through the recall of exquisite detail - is overthrow, at least momentarily, this tyrant. The famous passage from Speak, Memory wills us to believe that we are with Nabokov as he remembers in 'real time'; as he battles the enemy Time before our very eyes and throws its corpse at our feet:
"Among the trivial souvenirs acquired at Biarritz before leaving, my favorite was. . . a meerschaum penholder with a tiny peephole of crystal in its ornamental part. . . . a miraculous photographic view of the bay and of the line of cliffs ending in a lighthouse could been seen inside. And now a delightful thing happens. The process of re-creating that penholder and the microcosm in its eyelet stimulates my memory to a last effort. I try again to recall the name of Colette's dog-- and , triumphantly, along those remote beaches, over the glossy evening sands of the past, where each footprint slowly fills up with sunset water-, here it comes, here it comes, echoing and vibrating: Floss, Floss, Floss!"