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Bede and Pushkin; Swallows, cicadas and butterflies, Cecília Meireles, Rilke, Nabokov...
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JK off-List to JM: "You have Vladimir Vladimirovich write "sliver of light ...." Actually, Nabokov wrote "a brief crack of light" [...] Nabokov doesn't exactly refer to "twin eternities"-- but rather places the emphasis in my opinion on the darkness of those (and this is important) 'identical twins.' Nabokov starts his memoir with conventional symbols of hopelessness and the rest of the book works against that notion."
JM: A pertinent observation ( the correct quote is: "The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness."*) and an enriching commentary about Nabokov's stylistic combat between hopelessness and another state.
I muddled my intended reference - probably because the initial clarity of this image disappeared as soon as it was recalled in proximity to other - only apparently similar - observations, such as Van Veen's belief that "our awareness of being is not a dot in eternity, but a slit, a fissure, a chasm running along the entire breadth of metaphysical time, bisecting it and shining - no matter how narrowly - between the back panel and fore panel" and the earlier conclusion about "the actual existence of a permanently moving bright fissure (the point of perception), between our retrospective eternity which we cannot recall and the prospective one which we cannot know" [BS,306 - The Library of America,1996]
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* A related SIGHTING from the Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Brief_Crack_of_Light ):
A Brief Crack of Light, is the forthcoming thirteenth studio album by the band Therapy?, and the third album to be released on Blast Records, part of The Global Music Group family. It was originally scheduled to be released in October 2011...but is now expected to be released on February 6, 2012. The album will be preceded by a single (Living in the Shadow of a Terrible Thing) on January 23, 2012, a video of which was filmed in November 2011...Produced by Adam Sinclair & Andy Cairns, the album's title comes from Vladimir Nabokov, who describes life as "A brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness".
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JM: A pertinent observation ( the correct quote is: "The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness."*) and an enriching commentary about Nabokov's stylistic combat between hopelessness and another state.
I muddled my intended reference - probably because the initial clarity of this image disappeared as soon as it was recalled in proximity to other - only apparently similar - observations, such as Van Veen's belief that "our awareness of being is not a dot in eternity, but a slit, a fissure, a chasm running along the entire breadth of metaphysical time, bisecting it and shining - no matter how narrowly - between the back panel and fore panel" and the earlier conclusion about "the actual existence of a permanently moving bright fissure (the point of perception), between our retrospective eternity which we cannot recall and the prospective one which we cannot know" [BS,306 - The Library of America,1996]
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* A related SIGHTING from the Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Brief_Crack_of_Light ):
A Brief Crack of Light, is the forthcoming thirteenth studio album by the band Therapy?, and the third album to be released on Blast Records, part of The Global Music Group family. It was originally scheduled to be released in October 2011...but is now expected to be released on February 6, 2012. The album will be preceded by a single (Living in the Shadow of a Terrible Thing) on January 23, 2012, a video of which was filmed in November 2011...Produced by Adam Sinclair & Andy Cairns, the album's title comes from Vladimir Nabokov, who describes life as "A brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness".
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