Subject: [NABOKV-L] [NABOKOV-LIST] [ Ada, or Ardor] siblings and their discoveries in the attic,PS
From: "jansymello" <[email-masked]>
To: "Vladimir Nabokov Forum" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 17:48:35 -0400

Dear SES,
I don't know if it is worthwhile to add my PS ( it is too subjective and puzzled) but, while I wondered why I make mistakes while reading ADA I made another mistake, as the just mailed posting serves to demonstrate.
Anyway, here it goes ( and you decide!)
Jansy
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JM: There were two things I knew: Van and Ada, both, were children born to Marina and Demon. Lucette was only their half-sister. And yet, I often forget that Lucette is Ada's half-sister or that the important discovery is that Van and Ada are Marina's children, ie, that Van is not Aqua's son. 
Why is it so hard to put this information to good use while re-reading? How does this "trap" function when I follow the text ( am I alone in that?): is there another information, still unknown, pressuring and disturbing my attention? Is it something that results from the way the information is conveyed by the narrator? 

This is a PS to the question:  I wonder, though, why was  the "two kids' best find" something that "came from another carton in a lower layer of the past."? Their "best find" in relation to what? Their parentage?[...]'I deduce,' said the boy, 'three main facts: that not yet married Marina and her married sister hibernated in my lieu de naissance; that Marina had her own Dr Krolik, pour ainsi dire; and that the orchids came from Demon who preferred to stay by the sea, his dark-blue great-grandmother.'[...] Did Ada's words, as they were placed in her mouth at that moment, reveal that there were never "two" discoverers of strange treasures but only one? It this a "delayed-action" information deliberately set by the narrator and to what purpose does it serve? 

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