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Re: JM to MR back to Sergei: reading by VN's "intertexture"
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"The difference between Shade and Kinbote is more in texture and style, than can be derived from
various “keys” planted here an there." (S.S)
"Can you explain this a bit more? ...My idea was, simply, that counterpoint and texture (especially as it relates to different voices in music) seem to be concepts which speak to ("PF" + Commentary) much more than ("PF") by itself... I'll say that I think that the notion of how we read and re-read PF has to be examined more closely" countered M.Roth
One more voice, here added "inter-texturely": Why not examine more and go beyond "PF and Commentary"?
For example. In "ADA" we find Van's treatise on "Texture of Time"and his insight on the interval between events. Now, ADA begins, on Chapter 1, part One, with:
"All happy families are more or less dissimilar; all unhappy ones are more or less alike" (a great Russian writer)
If we should turn to Pale Fire, Commentary to line 894, when CK quotes JS denying Zemblan re-semblances ( initially CK had changed the "subject" saying "all Chinese look alike") we end with:
"Resemblances are the shadows of differences. Different people see different similarities and similar diferences" .
Various voices seem to be chiming in at various points in a diastema of different textures along distinct works...
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various “keys” planted here an there." (S.S)
"Can you explain this a bit more? ...My idea was, simply, that counterpoint and texture (especially as it relates to different voices in music) seem to be concepts which speak to ("PF" + Commentary) much more than ("PF") by itself... I'll say that I think that the notion of how we read and re-read PF has to be examined more closely" countered M.Roth
One more voice, here added "inter-texturely": Why not examine more and go beyond "PF and Commentary"?
For example. In "ADA" we find Van's treatise on "Texture of Time"and his insight on the interval between events. Now, ADA begins, on Chapter 1, part One, with:
"All happy families are more or less dissimilar; all unhappy ones are more or less alike" (a great Russian writer)
If we should turn to Pale Fire, Commentary to line 894, when CK quotes JS denying Zemblan re-semblances ( initially CK had changed the "subject" saying "all Chinese look alike") we end with:
"Resemblances are the shadows of differences. Different people see different similarities and similar diferences" .
Various voices seem to be chiming in at various points in a diastema of different textures along distinct works...
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