J.Aisenberg:When JM says that
one can follow a "Gogol" style ghost story in Ada, presumably he refers
to N.'s lectures on the "Overcoat"? I don't remember precisely how that one
worked. "Bout-bouteille-butler-Blanche-Cinderella-Sores-Ben
Wright-Fartukov"--This word chain, while I recognize the words from the book,
and the word play, I don't know why these should all be run..
J.Mello : I was not offering a "word
chain" but a list of "entries" that might indicate the
world of servants, their habits, lore, songs aso as
they unfold in a secondary, or tertiary sub-story when they are placed
in this specific context.
VN considered Gogol's prose as "four-dimensional,
at leat. He may be compared to his contemporary, the mathematician
Lobachevsky..." ( a biography of Nikolai
Gogol by Vladimir Nabokov, New Directions Paperbook,l961
(page 145).
The Cinderella/Blanche/pumpkin carriage, as it changes shape in "ADA",
reminded me of Nabokov's comments in the same book ( I couldn't locate this
example now).