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Re: Pale Fire: who invented whom (fwd) -Reply (fwd)
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Subject: Re: Pale Fire: who invented whom (fwd) -Reply
EDITOR's IDLE THOUGHT. Being "reductive" is not necessarily a bad thing.
In fact, it's often supremely useful.
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From: Susan Sweeney <sweeney@HOLYCROSS.EDU>
I agree with Charles. It seems reductive to me to choose one side of the
novel over the other, and I think that Nabokov worked in many exquisite
contradictions in order to prevent one from doing so.
-- Susan Elizabeth Sweeney
Subject: Re: Pale Fire: who invented whom (fwd) -Reply
EDITOR's IDLE THOUGHT. Being "reductive" is not necessarily a bad thing.
In fact, it's often supremely useful.
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From: Susan Sweeney <sweeney@HOLYCROSS.EDU>
I agree with Charles. It seems reductive to me to choose one side of the
novel over the other, and I think that Nabokov worked in many exquisite
contradictions in order to prevent one from doing so.
-- Susan Elizabeth Sweeney