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Date: Sat, 09 Jul 2005 10:53:41 -0800
From: Carolyn Kunin <chaiselongue@earthlink.net>
Reply-To: Carolyn Kunin <chaiselongue@earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: [Tomasz] hypothesis - - a little tutu?
To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum
I think Tomasz's interpretation is perhaps just too Borgesian - - too
abstractly philosophical, and not so Nabokovian - - i.e., too independent
of the detail of which Nabokov was so fond.
Carolyn
> From: "Donald B. Johnson" <chtodel@gss.ucsb.edu>
> Reply-To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
> Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2005 09:36:43 -0700
> To: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
> Subject: Re: Fwd: [Tomasz] hypothesis about pale fire
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> I found this hypothesis provocative and reminiscent of some of Borges's
> ontological games in which texts, characters, and worlds are reflections of
> each other (and, with varying distortions, of a hypothetical unknown maker).
> What do others think?
>
> Susan Elizabeth Sweeney
> Associate Professor of English
> Holy Cross College
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Date: Sat, 09 Jul 2005 10:53:41 -0800
From: Carolyn Kunin <chaiselongue@earthlink.net>
Reply-To: Carolyn Kunin <chaiselongue@earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: [Tomasz] hypothesis - - a little tutu?
To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum
I think Tomasz's interpretation is perhaps just too Borgesian - - too
abstractly philosophical, and not so Nabokovian - - i.e., too independent
of the detail of which Nabokov was so fond.
Carolyn
> From: "Donald B. Johnson" <chtodel@gss.ucsb.edu>
> Reply-To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
> Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2005 09:36:43 -0700
> To: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
> Subject: Re: Fwd: [Tomasz] hypothesis about pale fire
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> I found this hypothesis provocative and reminiscent of some of Borges's
> ontological games in which texts, characters, and worlds are reflections of
> each other (and, with varying distortions, of a hypothetical unknown maker).
> What do others think?
>
> Susan Elizabeth Sweeney
> Associate Professor of English
> Holy Cross College
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