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Re: Cerebral sclerosis and a bit of neuroanatomy
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Thank you, Nick Grundy!! That's all very good information. Also thanks
for
the info on Lemnisci. I should note that in the section from Glanvill's
Vanity of Dogmatizing that brings up the "Scholar Gypsy" (see Kinbote's
note to l.1000) there is a specific mention of the "fibers of the
brain"--
and how one's imagination may be able to affect the brain of another.
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Also, I can't find the message that doubted whether Nabokov would have
known about Fux's Gradus ad Parnassum, but I find it hard to so easily
dismiss this possibility. Fux's work was the single most influential
work on counterpoint (Renaissance) ever written. Almost all books on
counterpoint since then have started with Fux. Given the prominence of
the idea of counterpoint in Shade's poem, along with the appearance of
Gradus, it seems likely, rather than unlikely, that Nabokov should have
heard of it. For those interested, the Wikipedia entry for Fux is a good
place to start.
Matthew Roth
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for
the info on Lemnisci. I should note that in the section from Glanvill's
Vanity of Dogmatizing that brings up the "Scholar Gypsy" (see Kinbote's
note to l.1000) there is a specific mention of the "fibers of the
brain"--
and how one's imagination may be able to affect the brain of another.
--------------------------------------------
Also, I can't find the message that doubted whether Nabokov would have
known about Fux's Gradus ad Parnassum, but I find it hard to so easily
dismiss this possibility. Fux's work was the single most influential
work on counterpoint (Renaissance) ever written. Almost all books on
counterpoint since then have started with Fux. Given the prominence of
the idea of counterpoint in Shade's poem, along with the appearance of
Gradus, it seems likely, rather than unlikely, that Nabokov should have
heard of it. For those interested, the Wikipedia entry for Fux is a good
place to start.
Matthew Roth
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