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Re: Fw: [NABOKV-L] THOUGHTS: the need for climax in Canto 4
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In a message dated 13/05/2010 23:51:08 GMT Daylight Time, chtodel@COX.NET writes:Does it not seem apropos, that the missing final line (1000) is intended to mark the ultimate indeterminacy of the afterlife issue? It seems a fitting conclusion, no? Don Johnson / That is indeed what I have been trying to suggest.Anthony Stadlen
JM: Isn't this laying excessive emphasis on the linearity of after-life, its talking spirits in limbo, hell and paradise, and not as metaphors about being caged in time and space? What about Shade's hints at a transcendental dimension with its parallel, cohexisting worlds? Am I wrong to imagine that the entire "IPH" canto is a parody of spiritualistic rituals, institutionalized religious beliefs?
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JM: Isn't this laying excessive emphasis on the linearity of after-life, its talking spirits in limbo, hell and paradise, and not as metaphors about being caged in time and space? What about Shade's hints at a transcendental dimension with its parallel, cohexisting worlds? Am I wrong to imagine that the entire "IPH" canto is a parody of spiritualistic rituals, institutionalized religious beliefs?
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