Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0010237, Mon, 9 Aug 2004 08:43:59 -0700

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Re: TT-10 fit?
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Date: Monday, August 09, 2004 9:53 PM +0900
From: Akiko Nakata <a-nakata@courante.plala.or.jp>
To: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
Subject: Re: TT-10 fit?


Dear Eric,

Thanks very much for your discussion and cataloging the "fit"s. I think
"fit" is a Proteusian word that suggests several themes of the novel. HP
revisits Switzerland trying to fit his memory with his past only in vain,
the ghosts try to focus on the fit (something/someone) in spacetime,
several characters are suggested to fit into the others or some pictures as
if they were the same--these could be regarded as some variations of one
theme--and HP murders his fitful wife in a fit, and he is in a different
sort of fit needed to enter the other world at the end of the novel.

Akiko

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