1. The September 2002 issue of SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN is entirely devoted to one of VN's favoroite subjects---TIME. I found Paul Davies' "That Mysterious Flow" (40-43) quite relevant to VN's TRANSPARENT THINGS and ADA.  The mini-abstract reads:
    Our senses tell us that time flows: namely, that that the  past is fixed, the future undetermined, and reality lived in the present. Yet various physical and philosophical arguments suggest otherwise.
    The passage of time is probably an illusion. Consciousness may involve thermodynamic or quantum processes that lend the impression of living moment by moment."
 
2. The Saint Petersburg paper NEVSKOE VREMYA (which shares the old NABOKOV town house) features an interview with Alexander Dolinin under the title "Yavnyi i tainyi" about the July Nabokov Symposium at the museum. Jul 27, 2002, p. 3.
 
NABOKV-L will shortly be running the abstracts from the SYMPOSIUM
 
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