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Re: THOUGHTS: Consistency, ID, Religion
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JA: They comprise worlds [...] whose totality can only be appreciated outside the rectangular world of the book (Nabokov was wrong about the spherical shape of life)... My own view is that this design stuff is interesting only as it relates to understanding the author's work, as for the universe of my life, Designers no matter how univocal or democratic are the real fairytales.
JM: Where does Nabokov describe the "spherical shape of life"? He wrote about a transparent marble with a spiral inside, of loose spirals evolving here and there. I think Van also wrote something about spherical space ( or was it spherical time?)
Why transform "ID" into an anthropoid "Designer"?
It is still unclear to me if Fyodor's father believed that concepts, in fact, express "the original of a being".
If he did... how could he then accept "evolution" as taking place and thereby disturbing those perfectly designed originals?
(Henri Poincaré wrote that perfect worlds, by their very perfection, have to be static, motionless)
Would VN's spiraling and evolving world be encased, indeed, inside a crystal sphere that is observed by its Designer? I don't think that answers to such questions shall clarify anything important on what concerns VN's fiction:. even arguments, such as those voiced by Fyodor, must belong to VN's fictional ploys.
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JM: Where does Nabokov describe the "spherical shape of life"? He wrote about a transparent marble with a spiral inside, of loose spirals evolving here and there. I think Van also wrote something about spherical space ( or was it spherical time?)
Why transform "ID" into an anthropoid "Designer"?
It is still unclear to me if Fyodor's father believed that concepts, in fact, express "the original of a being".
If he did... how could he then accept "evolution" as taking place and thereby disturbing those perfectly designed originals?
(Henri Poincaré wrote that perfect worlds, by their very perfection, have to be static, motionless)
Would VN's spiraling and evolving world be encased, indeed, inside a crystal sphere that is observed by its Designer? I don't think that answers to such questions shall clarify anything important on what concerns VN's fiction:. even arguments, such as those voiced by Fyodor, must belong to VN's fictional ploys.
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