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From: "Wayne Daniels" <wdaniels@tpl.toronto.on.ca>
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> >There is something slightly missing, it seems, in a view of Nabokov's
entomology that starts with ones own lack of interest in insects.
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> No doubt there would be, had I been altogether serious when I wrote what I
wrote. But I wasn't, you see. Perhaps I ought to start using smiley faces.
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> >That leads me to ask, honestly, does anyone have a suggestion about what
Nabokov's enterprise in science meaningfully elucidates about the arts? I
think that would be an interesting question to explore.
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> So do I. In fact I said something not unlike it in an earlier post,
implying that the connection needed to be made before the entomological
writings could be assumed to be of much interest to the non-scientific
reader.
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> Cheers,
> Wayne Daniels
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From: "Wayne Daniels" <wdaniels@tpl.toronto.on.ca>
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> ----------------- Message requiring your approval (11
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> >There is something slightly missing, it seems, in a view of Nabokov's
entomology that starts with ones own lack of interest in insects.
>
> No doubt there would be, had I been altogether serious when I wrote what I
wrote. But I wasn't, you see. Perhaps I ought to start using smiley faces.
>
> >That leads me to ask, honestly, does anyone have a suggestion about what
Nabokov's enterprise in science meaningfully elucidates about the arts? I
think that would be an interesting question to explore.
>
> So do I. In fact I said something not unlike it in an earlier post,
implying that the connection needed to be made before the entomological
writings could be assumed to be of much interest to the non-scientific
reader.
>
> Cheers,
> Wayne Daniels
>