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Dear Sergei, Bouazza, Beth
I'll try to look into "netki" and "nonnon" and check "Invitation".
Sergei's
description fits exactly with the kind of anamorphosis I had in mind.
The
reference in "Invitation to a Beheading" must have slipped my
recollection
of it -but some memory of it must have remained for it to pop up now, as
if
brand new.
I wonder how often VN applied "anamorphosis" in his writing - and I mean
not
in a description or by direct mention, but through verbally distorted
images
that only mirrors or doubles make us see them ( I'd never thought about
echoes and symmetries in that sense. What of Shade, Gradus and
Kinbote/Botkin, now?). Would these fascinating names ( still rather
vague to
me: netki & nonnons) apply to some kind of "double negation" - not as in
arithmetical additions but as in multiplication?
Jansy
Are the papers read at the Nice Conference already available and how may
I
get them?
[EDNOTE. The papers from the Nice conference won't be available for
some time, I don't think. I'll invite Jenefer Coates to contribute to
the discussions of "nonnons," however. There's a similar description I
have always liked of a samovar in Ada, "which expressed fragments of its
surroundings in demented fantasies of a primitive genre" (p. 89, Vintage
ed.). -- SES]
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I'll try to look into "netki" and "nonnon" and check "Invitation".
Sergei's
description fits exactly with the kind of anamorphosis I had in mind.
The
reference in "Invitation to a Beheading" must have slipped my
recollection
of it -but some memory of it must have remained for it to pop up now, as
if
brand new.
I wonder how often VN applied "anamorphosis" in his writing - and I mean
not
in a description or by direct mention, but through verbally distorted
images
that only mirrors or doubles make us see them ( I'd never thought about
echoes and symmetries in that sense. What of Shade, Gradus and
Kinbote/Botkin, now?). Would these fascinating names ( still rather
vague to
me: netki & nonnons) apply to some kind of "double negation" - not as in
arithmetical additions but as in multiplication?
Jansy
Are the papers read at the Nice Conference already available and how may
I
get them?
[EDNOTE. The papers from the Nice conference won't be available for
some time, I don't think. I'll invite Jenefer Coates to contribute to
the discussions of "nonnons," however. There's a similar description I
have always liked of a samovar in Ada, "which expressed fragments of its
surroundings in demented fantasies of a primitive genre" (p. 89, Vintage
ed.). -- SES]
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