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Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 20:13:56 EDT
From: STADLEN@aol.com
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Subject: Re: Nabokov and Joyce's Finnegans Wake.
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In a message dated 21/05/2005 21:36:09 GMT Standard Time,
chtodel@gss.ucsb.edu writes:
> This scrap ot a sentence almost certainly applies to FW (SO, 30): "We think
> not in words but in shadows of words. James Joyce´s mistake in those
> otherwise marvelous mental soliloquies of his consists in tht he gives too
> much verbal body to his thoughts"
>
I suppose this might apply by extension to FW, but surely VN here means
primarily, and quite possibly exclusively, the "stream of consciousness"
passages
in "Ulysses". After all, FW is supposed to consist of dream, not "mental
soliloquies".
Anthony Stadlen
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