By the way, Johnson claims to have found a "single thread" that Henry James has woven throughout all of his work - - a thread "hidden in plain sight". I suspect Nabokov has done something similar - - some of his best jests certainly have this quality.

On Jan 5, 2008, at 2:21 PM, Nabokv-L wrote:

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Subject: Book Note

Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2008 10:56:06 -0800

From: Samuel Schuman <sschuman@UNCA.EDU>

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CC: Samuel Schuman <sschuman@UNCA.EDU>

Nabokovians might be interested in Lee McKay Johnson's "Finding the Figure
in the Carpet: Vision and Silence in the Works of Henry James." Johnson
refers to VN several times, and suggests that James' sense of the ideal
novel reader corresponds to Nabokov's -- that is, the only ideal reader is a
re-reader, who can apprehend the entire work simultaneously, like a piece of
visual art.

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Subject:	Book Note
Date:	Thu, 03 Jan 2008 10:56:06 -0800
From:	Samuel Schuman <sschuman@UNCA.EDU>
To:	NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
CC:	Samuel Schuman <sschuman@UNCA.EDU>

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