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Re: Edsel Ford and conjuring nebulae in two lungs
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Just a quick note in response to Jansy's last post ("*Edsel Ford and
conjuring nebulae in two lungs") *- the wikipedia information I provided was
in acknowledgement of my own ignorance of astronomy. By contrast, the
medical information I provided was not "wikipedia-inspired" - I'm in the
penultimate year of a graduate medical course, so my knowledge of both
tuberculosis and neuroanatomy (where I believe my post gave Crossman &
Neary's Neuroanatomy as a reference) is based on that - the most recent
X-ray I saw of miliary TB was last week at a hospital in Vellore, India,
from where I am currently typing. While I appreciate that a certain academic
suspicion is healthy, I'd have found it less abrasive to have had the source
of my information checked rather than the assumption made that I was merely
typing things into google... !
On the question of how far discussions can or should diverge from what VN
intended - one could use Barthes' Death of the Author to argue that would
Nabokov intended in his work is of *no* importance. While I'm sure many of
the discussions on the list, perhaps including the MPD, tuberculosis, and
neuroanatomy ones, are minority discussions, I would hate to see them
excluded *from* discussion on the basis that Nabokov may not have "intended"
them.
Best,
Nick.
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conjuring nebulae in two lungs") *- the wikipedia information I provided was
in acknowledgement of my own ignorance of astronomy. By contrast, the
medical information I provided was not "wikipedia-inspired" - I'm in the
penultimate year of a graduate medical course, so my knowledge of both
tuberculosis and neuroanatomy (where I believe my post gave Crossman &
Neary's Neuroanatomy as a reference) is based on that - the most recent
X-ray I saw of miliary TB was last week at a hospital in Vellore, India,
from where I am currently typing. While I appreciate that a certain academic
suspicion is healthy, I'd have found it less abrasive to have had the source
of my information checked rather than the assumption made that I was merely
typing things into google... !
On the question of how far discussions can or should diverge from what VN
intended - one could use Barthes' Death of the Author to argue that would
Nabokov intended in his work is of *no* importance. While I'm sure many of
the discussions on the list, perhaps including the MPD, tuberculosis, and
neuroanatomy ones, are minority discussions, I would hate to see them
excluded *from* discussion on the basis that Nabokov may not have "intended"
them.
Best,
Nick.
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