Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0005058, Sun, 7 May 2000 16:14:30 -0700

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Fw: Pnin as featherless biped?
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From: "Nat Selleck" <selleck@operamail.com>
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> We all know that Nabokov had his difficulties with the unfalsifiably
> overarching schemes of Darwin and Freud, but how about the system of
nature of
> that arch-architect Aristotle the Stagirite? When Pnin wanders through
the
> hall of Humanities at Waindell, which unaccountably houses the departments
of
> both Ornithology and Anthropology, is this not a dig at Aristotle's
definition
> of man as "featherless biped"?
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> Nat Selleck
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