Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0009154, Tue, 13 Jan 2004 19:58:47 -0800

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Scatology & Eschatology in ADA
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From: "Jansy Berndt de Souza Mello" <jansy@aetern.us>
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Subject: Re: Fw: Fw: Fw: creepy thoughts on ADA


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> Hello, Don
> a PS to the note I sent earlier to the List.
> RE-reading the notes I´d taken some time ago in relation to Joyce´s "
> sex and latrine" and what I wrote while bringing up the quotation of the
> stool´s "cruciform symmetry", I thought that the connection to Lucette
> seemed to be too slight.
> I came to another hypothesis. Levi-Strauss´s structural analysis
often
> offers a "cruciform symmetry" that invites the studious to be attentive to
> opposite signals, such as weathervanes marking east/west and north/south.
> Or in map orientation. Or in the wind crossing a room from several
opposing
> directions ( in "The Enchanter" )
> Here is my idea: should the connection between Lucette and
crucifixion
> refer to the structuralist view, or to her sacrifice? If we should accept
> the structural idea ( in the case it has not been compared to waste and
> shit ), could we then proceed to find Lucette´s opposite somewhere
according
> to the "cruciform" pointers? I´ve never liked the idea of Lucette as a
> sacrificial lamb...
> Jansy
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