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		<title>Mary, pp. 99-101</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2010 17:12:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In remembering his  departure from  the scenes of battle in 1920 after being &#8220;wounded in the head&#8221; (99)&#8211;memories inspired by Podtyagin&#8217;s question &#8220;When did you leave Russia?&#8221; (98)&#8211;Ganin mentally traces his route from the  Northern Crimea to Turkey: &#8220;Perekop tottered and fell&#8221; (99):  Ganin is recalling the siege and destruction of Perekop by the Red [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=falseazure.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9969230&amp;post=212&amp;subd=falseazure&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mary, pp. 91-93:  the poems in the letters?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 00:26:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The letters between Ganin and Mary contain four snippets from poems, only one of which is identified as authored by Podtyagin: &#8220;The full moon shines over forest and stream, / Look at the ripples&#8211;how richly they gleam!&#8221;  A fairly extensive web search has not revealed (to me, at least) the source of the other passages; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=falseazure.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9969230&amp;post=192&amp;subd=falseazure&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mary, p. 91:  “like a cabbage white butterfly”</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 00:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The exchange of letters between Ganin and Mary is evocatively described:  &#8220;There was something touching and wonderful about the way their letters managed to pass across the terrible Russia of that time&#8211;like a cabbage white butterfly flying over the trenches.&#8221; Once more, the communication of romance takes place against the backdrop&#8211;more precisely, across the trenches&#8211;of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=falseazure.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9969230&amp;post=186&amp;subd=falseazure&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mary, p. 88:  “he remembered the whole of the Crimean winter, 1917-1918″</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 17:18:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ganin remembers his time as a combatant in the northern Crimea and Yalta, the holiday resort on the shores of the Black Sea, during the momentous twelve months of 1917-1918, extending from the early days following the October Revolution and the commencement of the Russian Civil War, to the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk with Germany, signed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=falseazure.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9969230&amp;post=181&amp;subd=falseazure&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mary, p. 84:  “The Trousered Cloud”</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jun 2010 14:29:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In describing the loss of his passport to Klara, Podtyagin says &#8220;&#8216;That&#8217;s it:  I dropped it.  Poetic license:  elided passport.  &#8220;The Trousered Cloud&#8221; by Mayakovski.  Great big clouded cretin, that&#8217;s what I am.&#8217;&#8221; The reference is to Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893-1930), the great Russian futurist poet and his first major poem, published in 1915, the title [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=falseazure.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9969230&amp;post=175&amp;subd=falseazure&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mary, p. 83:  “the percentage of happiness&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jun 2010 13:59:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fate and destiny are consistent Nabokov themes.  Here, fate is equated to the listings of a railroad timetable, as Alfyorov anticipates the arrival of his beloved on the 8:05 &#8220;fast train from the  north&#8221;:  &#8220;His mind, used as it was to figures, was no preoccupied with one single figure, made up of a unit and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=falseazure.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9969230&amp;post=171&amp;subd=falseazure&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mary, p. 81: futurism</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Feb 2010 16:41:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As they ride to the consulate to obtain Podtyagin&#8217;s visa (a quest which will fail because Podtyagin has left his passport on the tram), Podtyagin relates to Ganin a dream of St. Petersburg and the river Neva in which he recalls that the &#8220;houses  had sloping angles as in a futurist painting.&#8221;  Russian futurism was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=falseazure.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9969230&amp;post=158&amp;subd=falseazure&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mary, p. 75:  the scent of racemosa</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 21:16:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As Mary walks away from him after departing from a train, Ganin&#8217;s last sight of her takes place in the atmosphere of &#8220;the heavy and fluffy scent of racemosa in bloom.&#8221;  This is probably the Padus racemosa, or European bird cherry, which is widely distrubted across Europe and Asia Minor.  It flowers between April and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=falseazure.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9969230&amp;post=147&amp;subd=falseazure&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mary, p. 74:  a piece of chocolate</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 21:01:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ganin notes that Mary offers him a piece of a &#8220;Blighen and Robinson&#8217;s chocolate&#8221; bar in their final moments in St. Petersburg together.  I&#8217;ve not been able to track down this brand reference, but, like the other product placements of perfumes and candies that seem to exist at several points in the novel, this indicates [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=falseazure.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9969230&amp;post=144&amp;subd=falseazure&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mary, p. 74:  the shooting on Nevski Avenue</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 20:52:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Looking over the train platform at the Warsaw Station before he meets Mary for the last time, Ganin thinks incongruently &#8220;about the shooting that had taken the day before on Nevski Avenue,&#8221; in reference to violent conflicts between police and crowds supporting the revolution in February, 1917 in St. Petersburg.  Ganin notes that the chaos [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=falseazure.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9969230&amp;post=141&amp;subd=falseazure&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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