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From: Jansy
Here is the Message to the List, related to C.Soares`s on electronic
Nabokov and Klein`s posting by Robert on LATH:
...My little helper at the magic lantern,
insert that slide and let the colored beam
project mhy name or any such like phantom
in Slavic characters upon the screen.
...
Because all hangs together - shape and sound,
heather and honey, vessel and content.
An Evening of Russian Poetry, Nabokov,1945
Electronic advances, as indicated by C.Soares, lighted
computer-screens that are like luminous eyes that keep reading
themselves, leaving to the human reader the simple role of serving
as an intermediary between one message and another... led me to these
lovely lines by Nabokov (quoted above), with its magic lanterns and
phantom names .
Vessel and content of a perceived world imprinted by a will, ready to
be dispatched by any means available. Brave new world of vicarious
responses. Perhaps Barthes and Foucault were right: the author is
dead.
In the other extreme, would LATH be more than self-parody and
indulgence? There are spots of Nabokov`s writing and effects but,
this time, before attempting a re-reading as this has been encouraged
by Robert on VN`s final book, the author is too much with us to
disturb the view...
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