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CHW: The return of the ending of the verse to its beginning does actually echo Finnegans Wake.
A. Stadlen: Please could we have a conditional here? "..would actually echo...". We have only Kinbote's assertion that there is a line 1000 and that it equals line 1. DN was going to try to remember exactly what his father said to him ...
CHW: But even in Finnegans Wake we can only, and are only indirectly invited to, assume that the ending returns to the beginning. Wikipedia: "The last sentence is incomplete. As well as leaving the reader to complete it with his or her own life, it can be closed by the sentence that starts the book - another cycle." That is, it isn't actually closed in this way --- it's up to the reader to make the closure.
A. Bouazza: One need not go to FINNEGANS WAKE for a circular structure but to VN's own short story "The Circle"...
J. Mello: One of the fascinating aspects of reading Nabokov, for me, comes from the fact that every re-reading seems to be entirely new. Although we are invited (usually, by Kinbote) to "make the closure" and fill in the blanks left by the author, we never seem to be able to return to the same place we started from. We are caught in the circular structure described as Bouazza has pointed out, but we spiral away...
Kinbote was haunted by external and internal rotating objects ( a fan, a merry-go-round or carousel...) Recently I came across an explanation about the meaning of the word "carousel" in Russian, particularly in Nabokov: "a Russian cabaret...a Russian theatre travelling to Berlin."
[Wikipedia: a carousel (or carrousel) is an amusement ride consisting of a rotating platform with seats for passengers." It may also refer to ( among other things) "Carrousel (booklet), containing three short texts written by Vladimir Nabokov in 1923 for "Karussel" and published in 1987.]
This circulatory information shattered my previous ideas concerning CK's migraines, insanity. It even broke down my certainties about the nature of his relationship with Shade and his commentaries.
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A. Stadlen: Please could we have a conditional here? "..would actually echo...". We have only Kinbote's assertion that there is a line 1000 and that it equals line 1. DN was going to try to remember exactly what his father said to him ...
CHW: But even in Finnegans Wake we can only, and are only indirectly invited to, assume that the ending returns to the beginning. Wikipedia: "The last sentence is incomplete. As well as leaving the reader to complete it with his or her own life, it can be closed by the sentence that starts the book - another cycle." That is, it isn't actually closed in this way --- it's up to the reader to make the closure.
A. Bouazza: One need not go to FINNEGANS WAKE for a circular structure but to VN's own short story "The Circle"...
J. Mello: One of the fascinating aspects of reading Nabokov, for me, comes from the fact that every re-reading seems to be entirely new. Although we are invited (usually, by Kinbote) to "make the closure" and fill in the blanks left by the author, we never seem to be able to return to the same place we started from. We are caught in the circular structure described as Bouazza has pointed out, but we spiral away...
Kinbote was haunted by external and internal rotating objects ( a fan, a merry-go-round or carousel...) Recently I came across an explanation about the meaning of the word "carousel" in Russian, particularly in Nabokov: "a Russian cabaret...a Russian theatre travelling to Berlin."
[Wikipedia: a carousel (or carrousel) is an amusement ride consisting of a rotating platform with seats for passengers." It may also refer to ( among other things) "Carrousel (booklet), containing three short texts written by Vladimir Nabokov in 1923 for "Karussel" and published in 1987.]
This circulatory information shattered my previous ideas concerning CK's migraines, insanity. It even broke down my certainties about the nature of his relationship with Shade and his commentaries.
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