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Dear List members,
thank you so much for your kind response to my Pninian eruption of feelings about Pnin. I enjoyed the discussion and I valued your comments on VN: language, biography and bibliography.
At the time, I ponder over what has been posted recently concerning the intended and not intended repercussions of written language and the danger of over-reading. This is a danger historians are accustomed with. Reality is overdetermined, which means only that history has to remain open-ended. The idea is already there is Pnin, not only in his cache-cache game with the narrator, which occupies the entire text, but mainly, dramatically, and undoubtedly in his exode, in the last page.
The danger of over-reading is nothing compared with the danger of over-writing, though. I would like to keep talking about Pnin, but I would not want to bore you. It was a real pleasure talking to you.
Best regards,
Maria Yamalidou
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thank you so much for your kind response to my Pninian eruption of feelings about Pnin. I enjoyed the discussion and I valued your comments on VN: language, biography and bibliography.
At the time, I ponder over what has been posted recently concerning the intended and not intended repercussions of written language and the danger of over-reading. This is a danger historians are accustomed with. Reality is overdetermined, which means only that history has to remain open-ended. The idea is already there is Pnin, not only in his cache-cache game with the narrator, which occupies the entire text, but mainly, dramatically, and undoubtedly in his exode, in the last page.
The danger of over-reading is nothing compared with the danger of over-writing, though. I would like to keep talking about Pnin, but I would not want to bore you. It was a real pleasure talking to you.
Best regards,
Maria Yamalidou
Search the archive: http://listserv.ucsb.edu/archives/nabokv-l.html
Contact the Editors: mailto:nabokv-l@utk.edu,nabokv-l@holycross.edu
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