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From: "Nat Selleck" <selleck@operamail.com>
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> We all know that Nabokov had his difficulties with the unfalsifiably
> overarching schemes of Darwin and Freud, but how about the system of
nature of
> that arch-architect Aristotle the Stagirite? When Pnin wanders through
the
> hall of Humanities at Waindell, which unaccountably houses the departments
of
> both Ornithology and Anthropology, is this not a dig at Aristotle's
definition
> of man as "featherless biped"?
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> Nat Selleck
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From: "Nat Selleck" <selleck@operamail.com>
>
> ----------------- Message requiring your approval (16
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> We all know that Nabokov had his difficulties with the unfalsifiably
> overarching schemes of Darwin and Freud, but how about the system of
nature of
> that arch-architect Aristotle the Stagirite? When Pnin wanders through
the
> hall of Humanities at Waindell, which unaccountably houses the departments
of
> both Ornithology and Anthropology, is this not a dig at Aristotle's
definition
> of man as "featherless biped"?
>
> Nat Selleck
>