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. Coriolanus > Act I, scene III
.
VALERIA: I saw him run after a gilded butterfly:
. and when he caught it, he let it go again;
. and after it again; and over and over he comes,
. and again; catched it again; or whether his fall
. enraged him, or how 'twas, he did so set his
. teeth and tear it;
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http://muse.jhu.edu/cgi-bin/access.cgi? ... ative_lite...
The King-Bot, the Crown Jewels and the Man in the Brown Macintosh
James Ramey Butterfly Worship
<<In The Annotated Lolita, Alfred Appel, Jr., associates
the frequent appearance of butterflies in Nabokov's work
with the mysterious processes that give rise to art,
suggesting a parallel between "the evolution of the
artist's self through artistic creation?and the cycle of insect
metamorphosis." Nabokov's apparent affirmation of this parallel,
implied by having allowed its publication with his book, seems to
have given some critics the impression that Nabokov saw his artistic
exertions to be like those of a caterpillar that hatches, ingests a
certain amount of plant material, cocoons himself, and pupates into a
splendid Red Admirable for good lepidoptereaders to admirably admire.
Yet this picture, however pretty, offers nothing but cheap symbolism
of the most exhausted sort, precisely the kind of symbolism Nabokov
relentlessly pilloried in his lectures, interviews & published works.
Appel's preface also seems to have fomented other variants of
butterfly worship among Nabokov's critics, in particular one that
interprets butterflies as symbols of the spirits of dead characters.
Brian Boyd proposed in 1999 that the ghost of Hazel Shade is an active
agent in Pale Fire, a prime mover of the novel's action. Though
Boyd's book is an indispensable compendium of critical insights
into Pale Fire, he bases his main "solution" to the novel largely
on Hazel's reincarnation as a Vanessa atalanta butterfly.>>
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[quote="kjardine"]Just for reference, SIMBAD lists 28 names for this object, including the "Bug nebula".
The "Butterfly nebula" is not one of these.
See: http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-id?Ident=NGC+6302
APOD, isn't 28 names enough? :)[/quote]
[list] [url=http://www.kidstube.com/play.php?vid=18038][b]Not nearly enough![/b][/url][/list]
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. Coriolanus > Act I, scene III
.
VALERIA: I saw him run after a gilded butterfly:
. and when he caught it, he let it go again;
. and after it again; and over and over he comes,
. and again; catched it again; or whether his fall
. enraged him, or how 'twas, he did so set his
. teeth and tear it;
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http://muse.jhu.edu/cgi-bin/access.cgi?uri=/journals/comparative_lite...
The King-Bot, the Crown Jewels and the Man in the Brown Macintosh
James Ramey Butterfly Worship
<<In The Annotated Lolita, Alfred Appel, Jr., associates
the frequent appearance of butterflies in Nabokov's work
with the mysterious processes that give rise to art,
suggesting a parallel between "the evolution of the
artist's self through artistic creation?and the cycle of insect
metamorphosis." Nabokov's apparent affirmation of this parallel,
implied by having allowed its publication with his book, seems to
have given some critics the impression that Nabokov saw his artistic
exertions to be like those of a caterpillar that hatches, ingests a
certain amount of plant material, cocoons himself, and pupates into a
splendid Red Admirable for good lepidoptereaders to admirably admire.
Yet this picture, however pretty, offers nothing but cheap symbolism
of the most exhausted sort, precisely the kind of symbolism Nabokov
relentlessly pilloried in his lectures, interviews & published works.
Appel's preface also seems to have fomented other variants of
butterfly worship among Nabokov's critics, in particular one that
interprets butterflies as symbols of the spirits of dead characters.
Brian Boyd proposed in 1999 that the ghost of Hazel Shade is an active
agent in Pale Fire, a prime mover of the novel's action. Though
Boyd's book is an indispensable compendium of critical insights
into Pale Fire, he bases his main "solution" to the novel largely
on Hazel's reincarnation as a Vanessa atalanta butterfly.>>
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