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Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 18:37:01 -0400
From: "Brown, Andrew" <Andrew.Brown@bbdodetroit.com>
Reply-To: "Brown, Andrew" <Andrew.Brown@bbdodetroit.com>
Subject: RE: committees of spirits in Pnin - forward reference to TT ?
To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum On the web site, yes, but in reality? One can
always post virtual inventory.
Had Wal-Mart come along 60 years sooner, HH and Lolita's peregrinations could
have been described as a series of six mile trips to the mall. Thank Walmart
for the disappearance of the landscape, tesselated, mosaic, or panoramic as it
may have been.
But I digress into what is now treason, I guess.
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> Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2005 01:28:27 -0400
> From: George Shimanovich <gshiman@optonline.net>
> Reply-To: George Shimanovich <gshiman@optonline.net>
> Subject: committees of spirits in Pnin - forward reference to TT ?
> To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum
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> The other day, I was re-reading 'Pnin', and paused upon reference to
> committees of spirits at the end of chapter 5. While walking under pines of
> Onkwedo resort, Timofey relives Mira's brutal death in Buhenwald, so close
> to cultural center of 'that nation of universities'. He does not believe in
> omnipotent G-d but, vaguely, in democracy of spirits who constantly meet in
> committees deciding fate of living. Mira, her and Pnin's parents deciding
> Timofey's fate? In a strange way I find similarity between Pnin and Hugh
> Person, as between Liza and Armande. Pnin is quite transparent to Waindell
> academia too, although with different result and they are no spirits, of
> course.
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> BTW I just came upon quite complete (50 titles, many hard-covers, Pnin
> included) selection of VN works on the web site of our neighborhood WalMart
> store, and for good price too:
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> http://www.walmart.com/catalog/search-ng.gsp?search_constraint=COMBINED_AUTH
> OR%3A3920
> <http://www.walmart.com/catalog/search-ng.gsp?search_constraint=COMBINED_AUT
> HOR%3A3920&search_query=Nabokov%2C+Vladimir>
> &search_query=Nabokov%2C+Vladimir
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> George Shimanovich
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