I join Sergey in memorializing the passing of Martin Gardner with whom I had a brief exchange of letters about VN's novel Look at the Harlequins and Gardner's The Ambidextrous Universe: Left, Right and the Fall of Parity. Gardner's work also figures in Pale Fire and in Ada. See my essay "The Ambidextrous Universe of Look at the Harlequins, pp. 170-184) in Worlds in Regression.
D. Barton Johnson
Inevitable, but sad to learn.
Carolyn
On May 25, 2010, at 1:11 AM, Sergey Karpukhin wrote:
Martin Gardner, who quoted from John Shade in hisThe Ambidextrous Universe(1964) and was in turn referred to as an invented philosopher, "Martin Gardiner," inAda, died on May 22, 2010.