Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0008666, Sun, 28 Sep 2003 08:58:48 -0700

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Fw: Fw: Fw: Fw: more Bernoulli links to Pale Fire. Fractals &
frac-tails.
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From: "Jansy Berndt de Souza Mello" <jansy@aetern.us>
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> Hi, Don
> so now Tom found the correct name for what I could only name as
"tuxedo"
> or "cutaway" in the place of the frac/tails... The funny thing ( that´s
what
> words are for, isn´t it? Suggesting infinities of associations...) is
that
> the fractail is a coat that dovetails... And he mentioned the magician
that
> makes doves disappear! Quite an involutive motion of eating one´s tail
and
> disappearing in the same vanishing act...
> I began once more to read ADA. I found something "concrete" this time
> and it is so obvious that I´m certain it must have been pointed out
before.
> Somewhere before page 47 in my Penguin ADA Van speaks about morning or
> afternoon as AM or PM...
> Isn´t there, in the am or pm , the word "amor" ( love?) already
> adumbtrated in their chiaroscuro games?
> Jansy
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EDNOTE. It seems to me that linking AM &PM to "amor" is a bit of a stretch,
no? And what might proceed from it?