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Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 11:19:37 EDT
From: STADLEN@aol.com
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Subject: Re: Nabokov and Joyce's Finnegans Wake.
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Dear Jansy,
You wrote:
<< Dear Anthony Stadlen,
You said that VN´s words "might apply by extension to FW", but that he "means
primarily, and quite possibly exclusively, the 'stream of consciousness' "
because he had referred his observation to J.Joyce´s mental soliloquies.
You are probably correct in your observation because VN explicitly returned
to
this idea in the Joyce lecture ( Bowers,page 289) while describing Molly´s
final soliloquy:
" but one can comment here that it exagerates the verbal side of thought.
Man
thinks not always in words but also in images, whereas the stream of
consciousness presupposes a flow of words that can be notated: it is
difficult,
however, to believe that Bloom was continuously talking to himself" .
On page 363:
"we must not see in the stream of consciousness as renedered by Joyce a
natural
event. It is a reality only insofar
as it reflects Joyce´s cerebration, the mind of the book".
And he added: " This book is a new world invented by Joyce. In that world
people
think by means of words, sentences. Their mental associations are mainly
dictated by the structural needs of the book, by the author´s artistic
purposes
and plans" >>
These quotations are exactly what I had in mind when making my fairly
dogmatic assertion. Thank you!
Tony Stadlen
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