Dear Don and List,
After Lolita´s impossible immortalization
through Humbert´s tale of her life , while discussing certain passages in
ADA we arrived at a curious infolium, a Gingko/Adafolium and the herbarium
where there is a couple flattened inside the pages of a book.
This closes the circle in the narrative ( it begins and ends with the
leaves/pages of that infolio...) and leaves the
spiraling leaves somwhere else.
Today I came acros Boyd´s quotation in "Nabokov´s ADa", Beyond
Consciousness chapter, page 89:
" The I of the book/ Cannot die in the book" and
referred to LATH 239 )
We return to the mistery of all the various " I " of VN´s
books and his unreliable narrators. But the point I want to raise
today is the contrast between this "I" that cannot die in the book and another
"Eye" ( a novel that seems to be almost absent in our list: The Story
of the EYE ) that speaks from the other side of the tomb ( like the
title of one of Chateaubriand´s works, never mentioned explicitly by VN:
Mèmoires d´Autre Tombe or TT´s writing ghosts ).
Like an "arrow shooting from one darkness into another" , what
can Mr. R or Van or HH say about this scrap of light or light breeze
escaping from "Another Scene" of the
after-death?
Jansy