100% Pynchon- and Nabokov-free Re: NPPF: anagrams

[pynchonoid]

Fascinating stuff.  I still don't quite see the
Pynchon significance -- and nothing specifically about
anagrams, either -- but I guess since it's something
of interest to somebody on Pynchon-L, that's just got
to be OK, in a friendly group like this. I continue to
look forward to more of these valuable insights from
the Nabokov readers.


--- Jumbly Girl <lycidas2 at earthlink.net> wrote:


> From "The Uses of Obscurity", Allon White, Routledge
> & Kegan Paul, 1981. 
> 
> Modes of obscurity are important signifying
> structures in literature and
> carry distinct
> kinds of meaning which are not secondary to an
> anterior obscured
> content" (p. 18). 
> 
> 
> From "Seven Types of Ambiguity", W. Empson, The
> Hogarth Press, 1984 
> 
> In so far as an ambiguity sustains intricacy,
> delicacy, or compression
> of thought,
> or is an opportunism devoted to saying quickly what
> the reader already
> understands, it is to be respected .... It is not to
> be respected in so
> far as it is due to weakness or thinness of thought,
> obscures the matter
> in hand unnecessarily, ... or, when the interest of
> the passage is not
> focussed upon it, ... if the reader will not easily
> understand the ideas
> which are being shuffled....The question is here one
> of focus; and it is
> in modern poetry, when the range of ideas is great
> and the difficulty of
> holding the right ones in mind becomes acute, ...
> that ambiguity is most
> misused." 
> (p.167).


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