SSH:
absence-as presence is a very Nabokovian notion, No? The sky BETWEEN the
branches, the infinity of time BETWEEN beats. No wonder then, that the “very
poetic girl” in Lolita is constructed of this
dreamspace:>)
JM:I
should have corrected the informal wording which suggested
"absence-as-presence" as being "a notion" of mine. This
formulation can be found in various contexts such as
in philosophy(symbol formation),music (interval, diastema), poetry,
religion...but what I had in mind was Freud and the fetish.