Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0014014, Thu, 9 Nov 2006 21:47:12 -0200

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Fw: [NABOKV-L] Fw: [NABOKV-L] Word-wars in Arabic traditions,
Oedipus and Timon of Athens and elsewhere
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Re: [NABOKV-L] Fw: [NABOKV-L] Word-wars in Arabic traditions, Oedipus and Timon of Athens and elsewhereSam Shuman suggested that every participant should keep his input at the level of a one-per-day quota.
I would like to bring up a different option.
I don't know if the present program for N-L distribution could allow the participants a choice, while enrolling, between (a) getting every mail whenever sent;
(b) receiving a daily package only once;
(c) following the messages only through the Archives.
(d) some other kind of arrangement that still leaves open space for livelier messages, but protects those who want a more restrained participation.

S K-B wrote: "To be or not to be" is not simply a 'question' in the modern sense of FAQ/FUQ (computerese for Frequently Asked/Unanswered Questions). Rather, to all but the basest (unversed!!) of groundlings, the audience would take in the wider semantic drift of the Latin 'quaestio' -- inquiry, investigation, examination by TORTURE! ..."

Included amidst the unversed in the "wider semantic drift of the Latin 'quaestio' " even so I'd like to "question" if that tortured meaning was really part of Hamlet's soliloquacious doubts. Inquisition's inquiry and, instead of "questioning", interrogation ( "interrogatório" in Portuguese, I don't know what word would be used in Spanish, Italian or French) now seem to be closer to this "question".
Albeit indirectly, I enjoyed the shift towards a discussion of Bend Sinister or Invitation...

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