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while W waters the fleurettes of no-vembrance."
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And that spells out "rainbow."
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The important thing here is that Nabokov acknowledges this debt to joyce as
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not just a parody, but a real debt.
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And so now I want to think at more length about another Joyce allusion
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which shows how complicated the relationship to his predecessor is.
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And, with Eliot,
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I read the Nabokovian version first.
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This time I'll give you the Joyce first.
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So this is on your handout as well from Chapter 2.
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This describes the hero, Stephen Dedalus, as a young boy trying to write a poem.
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And eventually in the novel he will succeed in writing a poem,