Subject:
RE: [NABOKV-L] QUERY: Mournful Monsters
From:
laurence hochard <laurence.hochard@hotmail.fr>
Date:
Fri, 4 Jul 2008 17:36:56 +0200
To:
Vladimir Nabokov Forum <nabokv-l@listserv.ucsb.edu>

Thanks to all
Laurence Hochard

Subject:
RE: [NABOKV-L] THOUGHTS: Consistency, ID, Religion
From:
laurence hochard <laurence.hochard@hotmail.fr>
Date:
Fri, 4 Jul 2008 17:45:25 +0200
To:
Vladimir Nabokov Forum <nabokv-l@listserv.ucsb.edu>



SB: Amazingly, this formulation echoes precisely a passage in Kant's Dreams of a Spirit-Seer (again can't be precise, but it's toward the end;
Thanks for the suggestion; I'll certainly read it, as well as your forthcoming work; it sounds very interesting; please let us know when the book is published.
Laurence Hochard

[EDNote: I was led to Kant's Dreams (1766) by a friend who was reading it for unrelated purposes.  I don't have any conclusions about it to offer; I can only confirm that the text is complex, multi-voiced, and takes at least two sides of the debate over whether such things as ghosts and other paranormal phenomena can be addressed in serious discourse.    It is, primarily, a response to Swedenborg's claims of paranormal and mystical experiences in Heavenly Secrets, but it does not openly mock (some call it a satire, but this claim is apparently controversial, or only partially true).  ~SB]
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