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In a message dated 6/15/03 4:59:14 PM, jbor at bigpond.com writes:

<< From Mary McCarthy's 'A Bolt from the Blue':

    [...] Whether the visible world, for Nabokov, is a prismatic
    reflection of eternity or the other way around is a central
    question that begs itself but that remains, for that very reason,
    moot and troubling. In the game of signaling back and forth
    with mirrors, which may be man's relation with the cosmos,
    there is perhaps no before or after, first or second, only
    distance - separation, exile - and across it, the agitated
    flashing of the semaphore. (xxi) >>

But the mirrors, except by definition, by force of will-
or what might be will as design might be creation-
are not quite parallel. The slightest bit of asymmetry
has catted in to curve time, bend space and belie an
otherwise infinite regress. 

respectfully