NPPF - Nabokov & Time

[David Morris]

--- Michael Joseph <mjoseph at rci.rutgers.edu> wrote:
> 
> 
> Very interesting, David. Thanks for keying in all of this. In Nabokov's
statement that our ideas of Time are "tainted by the idea of space, he is quite
clearly drawing upon Bergson's ideas in TIME AND FREE WILL, which were also
seminal in Eliade's dialectic of sacred time and history.

You're welcome.  But since I'm unfamiliar with Bregson's work, and I don't have
a good handle on what VN means to convey in the quotes I've passed on, maybe
you can elaborate some more about TIME AND FREE WILL (please?).  The adequacy
of Will (not the Bard) as a means of producing art (and also thus understanding
"reality") seems one of the basic messages of the poem (hilariously explored in
Canto Four).  What Shade longs for is "inspiration," which might be synonomous
with messages from the beyond...

David Morris

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