Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0011614, Sun, 10 Jul 2005 09:53:17 -0700

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Re: Fwd: Re: sent dreams?
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The more I look, the more it looks
> like this concept is Alexey's invention.

Then also Blok, the author of "Incognita," must have been invented by me. Or
perhaps I just dreamt of him...

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From: "Donald B. Johnson" <chtodel@gss.ucsb.edu>
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Subject: Fwd: Re: sent dreams?


> Dear George,
>
> Thanks for responding, but not one of these is an example of a dream sent
to
> a character from another deceased character.
>
> As Jansy pointed out to me privately, God has been known to send dreams
from
> time to time, but that is not the same thing. Neither are prophetic
dreams.
> Nor messages in barns.
>
> Even in "the Vane Sisters" the communications from the dead are sent to
the
> narrator while awake, so not in dreams. The more I look, the more it looks
> like this concept is Alexey's invention.
>
> Carolyn
>
>
>
> > From: "Donald B. Johnson" <chtodel@gss.ucsb.edu>
> > Reply-To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
> > Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2005 08:01:26 -0700
> > To: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
> > Subject: Fwd: RE: sent dreams?
> >
> > Hugh's dreaming of future fire with streetwalker from the past? Chapter
20,
> > TT.
> >
> > Somewhat related to it are dreams on threshold of death. Like Pilgrim's
> > dream from The Aurelian. This can be described as departing dream of a
> > living to himself.
> >
> > As far as dreams go they are present in most of what Nabokov wrote. Art
as a
> > form of dream - La Venziana?
> >
> > A wider topic would be 'Received dreams'.
> >
> > - George
>
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