NPPF Canto 1 Incest Motif

s~Z keithsz at concentric.net
Mon Jul 28 13:38:10 CDT 2003


>>>I found your insights stimulating. I loved them. I just didn't agree.<<<

I may not agree with myself as the text rolls on, but in response to your
'coincidence' I repeat:

"Allied to the professional and vocational dreams are "dim-doom" visions:
fatidic-sign nightmares, thalamic calamities, menacing riddles. Not
infrequently the menace is well concealed, and the innocent incident will
turn out to possess, if jotted down and looked up later, the kind of
precognitive flavor that Dunne has explained by the action of "reverse
memory"; but for the moment I am not going to enlarge upon the uncanny
element particular to dreams---beyond observing that some law of logic
should fix a number of coincidences, in a given domain, after which they
cease to be coincidences, and form, instead, the living organism of a new
truth" (ADA, p.361)

I'm going to read ADA a third time as I go through PF. The novels seem
intricately related to me.

I'll respond in detail to your post as time permits. Thanks for interacting
and offering other interpretations.




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