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J.Aisenberg: Obviously I adore to the nth degree Nabokov's literary flourishes, but I very firmly feel he's morre artist-scientist than scientist-scientist[...]his thoughts on specificity over generalization [...]to do away with Darwin and suggest a vaguely eaterny concept of intelligent design[...]
JM: I haven't read VN's scientific articles on butterflies, but I was charmed by such writings as Victor Fet's, on the "Zoological Label as Literary Form" (The Nabokovian 60,2008) or Stephen Blackwell's exposition about VN and evolutionism, which helped me gain a special perspective to understand, for example, VN's lines: "One is tempted to compare the evolutionist to a passenger who, observing through a railroad-car window a series of phenomena that implies a certain logic of structure (such as the appearance of cultivated fields, followed by factory buildings as a city approaches), would discern in these results and illustrations of movement the reality and laws of the very force governing the shift of his gaze." or
"Let us begin, as he did, by defining the concept of species. By "species" he intends the original of a being, nonexistent in our reality but unique and definite in concept, that recurs ad infinitum in the mirror of nature, creating countless reflections; each one of them perceived by our intelligence, reflected in that selfsame glass and acquiring its reality solely within it, as a living individual of the given species[...] "Father's Butterflies"
J.A... if you think this refers to the burning barn episode, what is the time frame [...] if you do read the scene with Dack as menstrual, as I definitely do, it has an interesting echo in Lolita, since Dolly apparently begins menstruating the day after the Enchanted Hunters [...]
JM:I should have checked the chronologies. Your arguments are convincing enough, plus an excellent reference to Lolita. My mistake.
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JM: I haven't read VN's scientific articles on butterflies, but I was charmed by such writings as Victor Fet's, on the "Zoological Label as Literary Form" (The Nabokovian 60,2008) or Stephen Blackwell's exposition about VN and evolutionism, which helped me gain a special perspective to understand, for example, VN's lines: "One is tempted to compare the evolutionist to a passenger who, observing through a railroad-car window a series of phenomena that implies a certain logic of structure (such as the appearance of cultivated fields, followed by factory buildings as a city approaches), would discern in these results and illustrations of movement the reality and laws of the very force governing the shift of his gaze." or
"Let us begin, as he did, by defining the concept of species. By "species" he intends the original of a being, nonexistent in our reality but unique and definite in concept, that recurs ad infinitum in the mirror of nature, creating countless reflections; each one of them perceived by our intelligence, reflected in that selfsame glass and acquiring its reality solely within it, as a living individual of the given species[...] "Father's Butterflies"
J.A... if you think this refers to the burning barn episode, what is the time frame [...] if you do read the scene with Dack as menstrual, as I definitely do, it has an interesting echo in Lolita, since Dolly apparently begins menstruating the day after the Enchanted Hunters [...]
JM:I should have checked the chronologies. Your arguments are convincing enough, plus an excellent reference to Lolita. My mistake.
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