Vladimir Nabokov

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> pynchon-l-digest Monday, September 29 2003 Volume 02 : Number
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> Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 18:55:28 -0400
> From: "Scott Badger" <lupine@ncia.net>
> Subject: RE: NPPF Still Wondering About This, Too
>
> Maybe this has already been noted, but other than Hazel, Sybil and John
> Shade, there are no entries in the index related to New Wye.
>
> Scott Badger
>
> > Why is there special instruction to see the entries for the letters G,
K,
> > and S in the Index, and then when you check them out you find
> > entries for G
> > and K, and none for S? Why is the entry for S nonexistent?
> >
>
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> Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 19:05:20 -0400
> From: "Scott Badger" <lupine@ncia.net>
> Subject: RE: Re: lemniscate and bicycling
>
> Mary:
> > No. The straightness, the weaving, the repetition, the
irregularity
> > are what show that such a track is not a lemniscate-like pattern.
>
> Maybe it's just me, but a bicylist riding in a figure-8, in the context of
> the poem, doesn't make any sense. But the pattern left by the two tires,
> while ridden in a relatively straight line, certainly resembles a chain of
> linked, if poorly drawn, figure-8's. Are you saying that, mathematically,
> these "figure-8's" don't qualify as lemniscates?
>
> > >The less "deft" the rider, the more
> > >pronounced the pattern.
> >
> > And presumably the rider was deft, so the pattern less pronounced.
>
> Might "nonchalantly deft Bicycle tires" allude to the "miracle" of a
complex
> pattern created by the tires without conscious effort on the part of the
> rider? My "less deft" was meant to suggest Shade as the "rider", but given
> the alternative definition I quoted, it works even better for Kinbote.
>
> > >OED deft -- 1. Gentle, meek, humble; = daft 1. Obs. rare.
>
> Scott Badger
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 19:27:28 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Michael Joseph <mjoseph@rci.rutgers.edu>
> Subject: Re: NPPF Apologies
>
> No problem, V. As I'm still lumbering through the Brera Range and most
> everybody else seems to be entrenched in ideological issues surrounding
> Vineland, why not take a blow and come to the table next week refreshed,
> more or less? (Unless, you feel a powerful urge to do it now-in which
> case, I'm happy to bow out sooner.)
>
> Michael
>
>
>
>
>> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 20:11:22 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Michael Joseph <mjoseph@rci.rutgers.edu>
> Subject: RE: NPPF Still Wondering About This, Too
>
> Spooky.
>
>
> On Mon, 29 Sep 2003, Scott Badger wrote:
>
> > Maybe this has already been noted, but other than Hazel, Sybil and John
> > Shade, there are no entries in the index related to New Wye.
> >
> > Scott Badger
> >
> > > Why is there special instruction to see the entries for the letters G,
K,
> > > and S in the Index, and then when you check them out you find
> > > entries for G
> > > and K, and none for S? Why is the entry for S nonexistent?
> > >
> >
> >
> >
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 22:14:39 EDT
> From: Prsamsa@aol.com
> Subject: Re: lemniscate and bicycling
>

>
>
> Whoa dudes, I'm not much up on math--apolly-wollys, etc.
>
> But--from what I understand of the lemiscate figure, it's very close to
> the outline of a butterfly,
> though with a pronounced bulge in the middle,
> the body or thorax of the insect.
>
> Nabakov: Butterflies. What a coup if he's written a butterfly-shaped
poem.
>
>
> Perry.
>
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