Every Freudian knows that one lapsus often attracts a number of others. That's what happened to me, after the exchange of a vowel in "Freiberg," when I tried to connect, without using a long sentence, Nabokov's discovery about Asian butterflies migrating to the Americas and his novel ADA [where a lot of geography is outlined, concerning navigators ( like West/East Vasco da Gama and North/South African trains), Arctic fur-traders, the Magellan and Bering straits, Ada's Patagonian references to Verne, aso) ]. So, I made a quip using Demon's sentence (‘If I could write,’ mused Demon, ‘I would describe, in too many words no doubt, how passionately, how incandescently, how incestuously — c’est le mot — art and science meet in an insect, in a thrush, in a thistle of that ducal bosquet'.") , together with his pathetic brother's travels in a counter-Fogg direction.

However, Uncle Dan cannot be considered as a true representative of "Art" (but perhaps of greedy marchands and indiscriminating collectors), nor do Nabokov's migratory butterflies spread out in a counter-fogg direction. My disoriented sentence should read: "Do Art and Science meet with Uncle Dan's counter-Fogg travels?" (the implicit query being: Did Nabokov's emphasis about the direction chosen by Daniel Veen indicate anything in particular or was it a simple variation in his references to Verne?)

Mere intuition ( as in my case) isn't enough to warrant the assumption that somewhere in ADA lurks a description of  Nabokov's butterflies migratory developments.

 

Please, accept my most humble apologies...*