Two disparate Nabokov sightings:
As Nabokov (252)once observed, "[n]obody can imagine in physical terms the act of reversing the
order of time. Time is not reversible."* Yet several authors have
attempted to construct worlds that invalidate this claim. The most notorious are
Philip K. Dick in Counter-Clock World (1967)...and Martin Amis in
Time's Arrow (1991). Reversed time narratives should not be confused
with narrative that tell stories in reverse chronological order, as does the
famous film Memento (2000) by Christopher Nolan, or the play and movie
Betrayal (1983) by Harold Pinter. As narratologists know full
welll...
Mary-Laure Ryan,University of Colorado, Bolder
- 2009
A translated school-text (originally: "Fundamentals of
Physics" by David Halliday, Robert Resnick & John Merrill, 1993) Ch12 -
related to wheels, rotation, kinetic energy... "Novelist Nabokov wrote well: 'The miraculous
paradox of smooth round objects conquered space by rolling...furnishing mankind
with a healthy impact' [O novelista Vladimir Nabokov escreveu bem:
“O paradoxo miraculoso de objetos redondos e lisos conquistou espaço
simplesmente rolando . . . fomeceu para a Humanidade um impacto saudável."]
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*V.Nabokov
(1975) Look at the Harlequins.
** - I couldn't find any indications to
locate this quote.