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Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 12:08:20 -0000
From: Jansy Berndt de Souza Mello <jansy@aetern.us>
Dear Don and List,
After Lolita´s impossible immortalization through Humbert´s tale of her life ,
while discussing certain passages in ADA we arrived at a curious infolium, a
Gingko/Adafolium and the herbarium where there is a couple flattened inside the
pages of a book. This closes the circle in the narrative ( it begins and ends
with the leaves/pages of that infolio...) and leaves the spiraling leaves
somwhere else.
Today I came acros Boyd´s quotation in "Nabokov´s ADa", Beyond Consciousness
chapter, page 89:
" The I of the book/ Cannot die in the book" and referred to LATH 239 )
We return to the mystery of all the various " I " of VN´s books and his
unreliable narrators. But the point I want to raise today is the contrast
between this "I" that cannot die in the book and another "Eye" ( a novel that
seems to be almost absent in our list: The Story of the EYE ) that speaks
from the other side of the tomb ( like the title of one of Chateaubriand´s
works, never mentioned explicitly by VN: Mèmoires d´Autre Tombe or TT´s writing
ghosts ).
Like an "arrow shooting from one darkness into another" , what can Mr. R or Van
or HH say about this scrap of light or light breeze escaping from "Another
Scene" of the after-death?
Jansy
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