Question of plausibility in Small Rain.

[William Zantzinger]

--- David Morris <fqmorris at yahoo.com> wrote:
> By the way [aside to MalignD}: I've started
> Nabokov's *Ada* through chapter 14.
>  I know you don't like science fiction, but the
> fantasy level of these first
> chapters feels like sci-fi (maybe schitzophrenia?). 
> I think after this I'll
> try *Pale Fire* again.


It sure does read like Sci-Fi at times and why
shouldn't it. 
 Fantasy, fairy tale, Romance, Gothic Romance  and
science fiction have much in common. Think of Swift or
Pynchon. Pynchon defends Sci-Fi in his Luddite essay.
One of the complaints that critics of Pynchon are
always bringing up is his failure to create human
characters. We should note that this is a critique of
Sci-Fi generally. Of course the excuse, if we want to
insist that it is an excuse, is that the technological
world of the sci-fi characters has de-humanized them. 

Don't want to spoil so we could look at Ch 13 and
discuss how it is not sci-fi and how it reads a bit
like sci-fi. 

The chapter opens with a lolita or skirt "'deficient
in botanical reality'...." 


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