Did Frau
Monde indicate Savonarola as the monk in
Tuscany whom, in the
past, she had incorporated?
When I observed
the similarities between the limits set by Tolstoy's devil and Nabokov's ( from
sunrise to sunset), I was imprecise.
Tolstoy made it
clear that, since sunset reaches different parts of the Earth at distinct
moments, the right sunset was the one that exactly corresponded to the
contestant's point of departure, not to when darkness overcame
him en route.
Nabokov's Frau
Monde's time followed a mechanical device: the time-limit was not the sunset but
the midnight hour.