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Jansy Mello: In note 244.23; and nothing is fuller than an empty mind, we
read Cf. 294-16-18 This created a vacuum into which rushed a multitude of
trivial reflections. A pantomime of rational thought. [ ] Thanks to the
link with atemporality, the meaning of the sentence related to trivial
reflections, pantomime of rationality is not necessarily as negative as it
appears to be at first sight. It might be indicative of that other kind of
thought process related to perception and the senses, or to Bergsons
atemporality where theres a rejection of utilitarian thinking and
logic. And the highest enjoyment of timelessness [ ] This is ecstasy, and
behind the ecstasy is something else, which is hard to explain. It is like a
momentary vacuum into which rushes all that I love. A sense of oneness with
sun and stone.[ ]
P S - But, actually, Vans observation seems to be doubly negative if one
reads the entire sentence* when to be conscious of details and natural life
becomes an agony because his beloved is absent from the entire landscape
(Vans magic method against the loss, the loss, the loss is what is
named a denial).
Its my impression that the iteration of vacuum into which rushes was not
a random occurrence but an inclusion of pain and filth into the formerly
ecstatic feeling of oneness with sun and stone
However, the suggestive timelessness, or atemporality still retains an
indication of Bergsons duration (la durée). But now V. Nabokov has added
another twist to Vans associations about the Time of the strong:
but for Logs sake, let us not confuse Time with Tinnitus, and the seashell
hum of duration with the throb of our blood. Philosophically, on the other
hand, Time is but memory in the making. In every individual life there goes
on from cradle to deathbed the gradual shaping and strengthening of that
backbone of consciousness, which is the Time of the strong.
It must include pain and loss
*- It was a quarter to six on the wristwatch hanging from the net of the
hammock. His feet were stone cold. He groped for his loafers and walked
aimlessly for some time among the trees of the coppice where thrushes were
singing so richly, with such sonorous force, such fluty fioriture that one
could not endure the agony of consciousness, the filth of life, the loss,
the loss, the loss. Gradually, however, he regained a semblance of
self-control by the magic method of not allowing the image of Ada to come
anywhere near his awareness of himself. This created a vacuum into which
rushed a multitude of trivial reflections. A pantomime of rational thought.
Ada, I, ch.41
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read Cf. 294-16-18 This created a vacuum into which rushed a multitude of
trivial reflections. A pantomime of rational thought. [ ] Thanks to the
link with atemporality, the meaning of the sentence related to trivial
reflections, pantomime of rationality is not necessarily as negative as it
appears to be at first sight. It might be indicative of that other kind of
thought process related to perception and the senses, or to Bergsons
atemporality where theres a rejection of utilitarian thinking and
logic. And the highest enjoyment of timelessness [ ] This is ecstasy, and
behind the ecstasy is something else, which is hard to explain. It is like a
momentary vacuum into which rushes all that I love. A sense of oneness with
sun and stone.[ ]
P S - But, actually, Vans observation seems to be doubly negative if one
reads the entire sentence* when to be conscious of details and natural life
becomes an agony because his beloved is absent from the entire landscape
(Vans magic method against the loss, the loss, the loss is what is
named a denial).
Its my impression that the iteration of vacuum into which rushes was not
a random occurrence but an inclusion of pain and filth into the formerly
ecstatic feeling of oneness with sun and stone
However, the suggestive timelessness, or atemporality still retains an
indication of Bergsons duration (la durée). But now V. Nabokov has added
another twist to Vans associations about the Time of the strong:
but for Logs sake, let us not confuse Time with Tinnitus, and the seashell
hum of duration with the throb of our blood. Philosophically, on the other
hand, Time is but memory in the making. In every individual life there goes
on from cradle to deathbed the gradual shaping and strengthening of that
backbone of consciousness, which is the Time of the strong.
It must include pain and loss
*- It was a quarter to six on the wristwatch hanging from the net of the
hammock. His feet were stone cold. He groped for his loafers and walked
aimlessly for some time among the trees of the coppice where thrushes were
singing so richly, with such sonorous force, such fluty fioriture that one
could not endure the agony of consciousness, the filth of life, the loss,
the loss, the loss. Gradually, however, he regained a semblance of
self-control by the magic method of not allowing the image of Ada to come
anywhere near his awareness of himself. This created a vacuum into which
rushed a multitude of trivial reflections. A pantomime of rational thought.
Ada, I, ch.41
.
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