RE: committees of spirits in Pnin - forward reference to TT ?

On the web site, yes, but in reality? One can always post virtual inventory.

Had Wal-Mart come along 60 years sooner, HH and Lolita's peregrinations could have been described as a series of six mile trips to the mall. Thank Walmart for the disappearance of the landscape, tesselated, mosaic, or panoramic as it may have been.

But I digress into what is now treason, I guess.

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    Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2005 01:28:27 -0400
    From: George Shimanovich <gshiman@optonline.net>
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Subject: committees of spirits in Pnin - forward reference to TT ?
      To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum

The other day, I was re-reading 'Pnin', and paused upon reference to
committees of spirits at the end of chapter 5. While walking under pines of
Onkwedo resort, Timofey relives Mira's brutal death in Buhenwald, so close
to cultural center of 'that nation of universities'. He does not believe in
omnipotent G-d but, vaguely, in democracy of spirits who constantly meet in
committees deciding fate of living. Mira, her and Pnin's parents deciding
Timofey's fate? In a strange way I find similarity between Pnin and Hugh
Person, as between Liza and Armande. Pnin is quite transparent to Waindell
academia too, although with different result and they are no spirits, of
course.

BTW I just came upon quite complete (50 titles, many hard-covers, Pnin
included) selection of VN works on the web site of our neighborhood WalMart
store, and for good price too:

http://www.walmart.com/catalog/search-ng.gsp?search_constraint=COMBINED_AUTH
OR%3A3920
<http://www.walmart.com/catalog/search-ng.gsp?search_constraint=COMBINED_AUT
HOR%3A3920&search_query=Nabokov%2C+Vladimir>
&search_query=Nabokov%2C+Vladimir

George Shimanovich

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