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From: "Kiran Krishna" <kiran@Physics.usyd.edu.au>
To: "Vladimir Nabokov Forum" <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
Sent: Monday, September 16, 2002 2:27 PM
Subject: Re: Fw: Nabokov and Augustine
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> Dear Hanny,
>
> There is a reference to Augustine in Ada, but then again Augustine's
> views of time are fairly well-known.
>
> Kiran
>
> On Thu, 12 Sep 2002, D. Barton Johnson wrote:
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> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Hanny Hindi
> > To: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
> > Sent: Thursday, September 12, 2002 4:55 PM
> > Subject: Nabokov and Augustine
> >
> >
> > Hello all--
> >
> > I had a couple of questions regarding a passage in Mary.
> >
> > First, most generally, is there any evidence that Nabokov read
Augustine's _Confessions_? I can't imagine that he missed it, but if there
is any direct evidence that would be helpful. And, did he know Latin (even
at the level of "Auden's French") or would he have read it in Russian (or
English or French) translation.
> >
> > Second, what is the original Russian of the phrase translated in chapter
2 of Mary as "dispersion of the will" (18)? Could the phrase be a
translation of and allusion to Augustine's "distentio animi" (distension of
the soul) a key element in his account of time in Book XI of the
_Confessions_ (11.14.17ff)?
> >
> > Thank you all in advance,
> >
> > Hanny Hindi
> >
>
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>
> Kiran Krishna
> 3rd yr physics
> (Falkiner High Energy Physics)
> University of Sydney
> NSW 2006
>
> --------------------------------------------
>
> The strong man with the dagger is followed by the weaker man with the
> sponge. First the criminal who slays then the sophist who defends the
> slayer.
> -Lord Acton
>
> http://www.physics.usyd.edu.au/~kiran
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>
From: "Kiran Krishna" <kiran@Physics.usyd.edu.au>
To: "Vladimir Nabokov Forum" <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
Sent: Monday, September 16, 2002 2:27 PM
Subject: Re: Fw: Nabokov and Augustine
> ----------------- Message requiring your approval (48
lines) ------------------
> Dear Hanny,
>
> There is a reference to Augustine in Ada, but then again Augustine's
> views of time are fairly well-known.
>
> Kiran
>
> On Thu, 12 Sep 2002, D. Barton Johnson wrote:
>
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Hanny Hindi
> > To: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
> > Sent: Thursday, September 12, 2002 4:55 PM
> > Subject: Nabokov and Augustine
> >
> >
> > Hello all--
> >
> > I had a couple of questions regarding a passage in Mary.
> >
> > First, most generally, is there any evidence that Nabokov read
Augustine's _Confessions_? I can't imagine that he missed it, but if there
is any direct evidence that would be helpful. And, did he know Latin (even
at the level of "Auden's French") or would he have read it in Russian (or
English or French) translation.
> >
> > Second, what is the original Russian of the phrase translated in chapter
2 of Mary as "dispersion of the will" (18)? Could the phrase be a
translation of and allusion to Augustine's "distentio animi" (distension of
the soul) a key element in his account of time in Book XI of the
_Confessions_ (11.14.17ff)?
> >
> > Thank you all in advance,
> >
> > Hanny Hindi
> >
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Kiran Krishna
> 3rd yr physics
> (Falkiner High Energy Physics)
> University of Sydney
> NSW 2006
>
> --------------------------------------------
>
> The strong man with the dagger is followed by the weaker man with the
> sponge. First the criminal who slays then the sophist who defends the
> slayer.
> -Lord Acton
>
> http://www.physics.usyd.edu.au/~kiran
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>
>