Corrections: Not Racine.
Rabelais is the birthday club member (along with Miguel, Will and
Nabokov.)*
Assouline's blog: http://passouline.blog.lemonde.fr/ The ten
symptoms of "bookaholism" were proposed by Paulo Roberto Pires.
Sandy Klein sent:
http://www.evolutionnews.org/2008/07/vladimir_nabokov_furious_darwi.html with a posting by David Klinghoffer that begins
with "So was Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977) secretly a fundamentalist
Christian, a mad man, or just plain ignorant?" and ends with:
"Singh misses the point of Nabokov's question. It's not the perfection of
the pattern that needs an explanation. The novelist/lepidopterist asked, if a
particular artistic subtlety in that perfection is beyond the ability of a
predator to perceive, how did nature select it?**"
The year-old evolutional posting fits in
nicely with Tom Rymour's short-story related to " intelligent design": no
one in Tom's "sub prime" hereafter ( hereafter is not a word
that serves to describe Tom's matricial idea), knows anything
about "Prime" - its next level
- and, while still inhabiting it, Nabokov appears as a
talented designer of butterflies and a studious of mimetism, unable to reach
porcupine and cypress walks.
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*JM: More than sightings, we take a fantastic
tour through a digital Hereafter, there's no IPH and potato about it! ( Chance,
like love, is only an illusion!). A young Russian chap in sub prime,
Sirin, belongs to the birthday-club gang, with Racine, Shakespeare and
Cervantes, but he is also driven about by Véra and visited by Dolly Schiller (
who was created right in Sub Prime) ...
** D.Klinghoffer's "nature"
is anthropomorphic, not VN's lepidopterological inquisition,nor
Tom's.