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Petter Naess: VN makes much of the lack of spontaneity in his "interviews", in which questions are submitted and VN's (written) responses are prepared beforehand. Sometimes he has a bit of fun with this by inserting faux spontaneity to create the illusion of an actual interview... in the midst of answering a literary question, pretends to be accosted by his dog (did he ever own a dog, btw?) and interjects "Down, Fido" (or something like that...), but now I'm unable to locate that passage.
JM: Yes, I remember the Fido thing. There must be two similar instances for, in the one I located (Vintage,p. 78), Nabokov doesn't mention Fido, but Plato: " I would say that imagination is a form of memory. Down, Plato, down, good dog. An image depends on the power of association...both memory and imagination are a negation of time...". He mentions Plato before (pages 69,70), probably later on too. Nabokov was not playing spontaneous as he seems to have been a forerunner of "neosincerity."
His family owned dogs ( there were Box I, Box II...), his first love kept Floss; Quilty and Aunt Maud had a shaggy skye-terrier...I'm a cat person, so I cannot be more precise about dogs - which are platonically immaterial anyway.
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JM: Yes, I remember the Fido thing. There must be two similar instances for, in the one I located (Vintage,p. 78), Nabokov doesn't mention Fido, but Plato: " I would say that imagination is a form of memory. Down, Plato, down, good dog. An image depends on the power of association...both memory and imagination are a negation of time...". He mentions Plato before (pages 69,70), probably later on too. Nabokov was not playing spontaneous as he seems to have been a forerunner of "neosincerity."
His family owned dogs ( there were Box I, Box II...), his first love kept Floss; Quilty and Aunt Maud had a shaggy skye-terrier...I'm a cat person, so I cannot be more precise about dogs - which are platonically immaterial anyway.
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