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>The idea of burning at the stake because of one's superior discoveries and
ideas (Giordano Bruno), trying to force faith, theory and perception meet
(Johannes Kepler) and Galileo's insistent provocations against the Roman
Church versus Inquisition, seem to have been themes that instigated VN and
his own shining intelligence
Stubbornness of conspicuous mind cutting oneself off from conformity, - at
all costs. That theme goes through so diverse works as 'Invitation to
beheading', 'Vasiliy Shishkov', 'Cloud, Castle, Lake', 'Bent Sinister'. The
story of Grisha Perelman is so Nabokovian exactly because it has so much of
life, on so many levels, in one person. Did any other writer do it better?
- George
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ideas (Giordano Bruno), trying to force faith, theory and perception meet
(Johannes Kepler) and Galileo's insistent provocations against the Roman
Church versus Inquisition, seem to have been themes that instigated VN and
his own shining intelligence
Stubbornness of conspicuous mind cutting oneself off from conformity, - at
all costs. That theme goes through so diverse works as 'Invitation to
beheading', 'Vasiliy Shishkov', 'Cloud, Castle, Lake', 'Bent Sinister'. The
story of Grisha Perelman is so Nabokovian exactly because it has so much of
life, on so many levels, in one person. Did any other writer do it better?
- George
Search <http://listserv.ucsb.edu/archives/nabokv-l.html> the Nabokv-L
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