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Carolyn and List,
Yes! Symmetry seems to be a fit word for a special kind of structure
achieved by VN ( the poem Pale Fire, for one).
I even extended my hypothesis about "mirrors and doubles" to include
them among his descriptions of symmetry since I always keep in mind that
VN was a nature scientist and symmetry may be considered as an
expression of the "natural" ( with all the deceiving games that arise
from our confidence its regularity)
Jansy
The Russian author Vladimir Nabokov, whose novels are full of symmetry
...
Is this true? I have noticed a tendency to dualities, mirror imagery and
bi-partite structure (at least in Lolita), but symmetry?
Carolyn
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Yes! Symmetry seems to be a fit word for a special kind of structure
achieved by VN ( the poem Pale Fire, for one).
I even extended my hypothesis about "mirrors and doubles" to include
them among his descriptions of symmetry since I always keep in mind that
VN was a nature scientist and symmetry may be considered as an
expression of the "natural" ( with all the deceiving games that arise
from our confidence its regularity)
Jansy
The Russian author Vladimir Nabokov, whose novels are full of symmetry
...
Is this true? I have noticed a tendency to dualities, mirror imagery and
bi-partite structure (at least in Lolita), but symmetry?
Carolyn
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