Creative Freedom in Nabby and the Pynch

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> 
> Thanks for this. I'm not sure the two quoted passages precisely
> match up considering the topic at hand, but so much the better
> to my tastes. 

Sitting on the subway yesterday I crossed my legs and glanced over my
reading glasses and the Times at a pair of snickering nymphets. Even on
Father's Day my sox didn't match. 


As you have presented them, both passages seem
> to imply that creation precedes- whether by cosmic design or not-
> any "designs" the artist might provide, and, that the artists are
> completely subservient to their initial inspiration which heralds from
> realms less or more than the conscious. Only afterwards is the artist
> free to consciously be creative. This may be just a little too precious.
> (I am not saying it's what you are advocating) 

It's not what I'm implying or advocating. It's not what N or P are
advocating in the passages. 


It begs the question,
> though, which I think Rosenbaum was hinting at, as to whether, at last,
> the conscious self is any more real than other imagined entities. So far,
> it seems like it would be important for Nabokov to believe in something
> akin to the self or individuality. I'm not so sure about Pynchon.

I beg your pardon? What is the question begged? Does P believe in
individuality? The self? Wha?