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Re: THOUGHTS: on VN sightings and footnotes
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MR: VN and his characters show up where you least expect. The math text
_Finite Structures with Few Types_, by Gregory Churlin and Ehud Hrushovski
(Princeton, 2003)... the authors have a little fun in the index (pg. 192) where we find the
following familiar fellow: Kinbote, Charles: not in the text
JM: I placed this information under "thoughts" because I think that it represents more things than those we usually encounter in "a sighting". It indicates not merely VN's ubiquitous sense of humor and acumen, but it also demonstrates his importance in other fields of human endeavour besides literature, translation...entomology. Kinbote's inclusion in the index of Churlin and Hrushovski's book is a "real presence" in the guise of an absence ( ... "not in the text") .
On the discussion concerning literature and novels cum footnotes, we should remember again T.S.Eliot's oeuvre, for example, "Four Quartes". In a totally different spirit we also have Virgínia Woolf's "Flush" where footnotes are not only part of the structure of the "memoirs" but it also highlights V.W"s critical views about nobility and social problems presented not didactically but in the same literary spirit as the corps of the novel.
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_Finite Structures with Few Types_, by Gregory Churlin and Ehud Hrushovski
(Princeton, 2003)... the authors have a little fun in the index (pg. 192) where we find the
following familiar fellow: Kinbote, Charles: not in the text
JM: I placed this information under "thoughts" because I think that it represents more things than those we usually encounter in "a sighting". It indicates not merely VN's ubiquitous sense of humor and acumen, but it also demonstrates his importance in other fields of human endeavour besides literature, translation...entomology. Kinbote's inclusion in the index of Churlin and Hrushovski's book is a "real presence" in the guise of an absence ( ... "not in the text") .
On the discussion concerning literature and novels cum footnotes, we should remember again T.S.Eliot's oeuvre, for example, "Four Quartes". In a totally different spirit we also have Virgínia Woolf's "Flush" where footnotes are not only part of the structure of the "memoirs" but it also highlights V.W"s critical views about nobility and social problems presented not didactically but in the same literary spirit as the corps of the novel.
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