As strove this man who
I came across this inscription recently in Kirkliston Kirkyard. The inscription of the man had eroded so much that it is no longer possible to know his name.
Tag: Vladimir Nabakov
50 years a gardener
I came across this much broken and worn tombstone in Kirkliston Kirkyard. I believe it commemorates Alexander Gibson who was 50 years a gardener at Newliston House.
“Disliked modern voodoo-psychiatry”
From ‘Pale Fire’ by Vladimir Nabokov.
a new canto
This film is for my daughter Rachel. June 2019: We were based at Dryburgh – the home of the Earl of Buchan and the resting place of Walter Scott. Music … Continue reading a new canto
Iambic line
A short passage from Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov.
‘a tower of yellow ivory’
This is from another short passage in Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov.
“Hilarity over the rot in a textbook . . .”
I have just finished reading Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov. It is interesting to read comments from this book about psychiatry.
above oor heids
[the words of Vladimir Nabokov]
pale fire
From Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov. The ‘epic poem’ of S H A D E immediately follows . . .
on the day of his death
From the bank of the river Tweed looking towards Abbotsford I wrote a poem. A poem to my faither. A branch of an old tree was my seat.
Reappearing on the horizon of a new canto
Yesterday we returned from a short break in the Scottish Borders. We were staying at Dryburgh once the home of the 11th Earl of Buchan – a wonderful eccentric who … Continue reading Reappearing on the horizon of a new canto
the first creatures to smile
In Nabakov’s memoir he does more than ‘speak M E M O R Y’. One of the passages that I most love from his memoir is this: What makes you … Continue reading the first creatures to smile