NPPR: Commentary Line 137 Lemniscate

[Michael Joseph]

Interesting, it would really be a miracle.

Michael

On Wed, 24 Sep 2003, cfalbert wrote:

> What if the two "boundaries" of the lemniscate represent Shad and Kinbote
> with the "connective medium" represented by Gradus?
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> love,
> cfa
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> > The lemniscate then might also represent the union of the two worlds of
> PF,
> > one of them a "real" world (or an *exterior* world, given the möbius
> > pattern) where V. Botkin takes evening rambles with John Shade; and the
> > other a "false" world (*interior*) filled with kings and shadows and fairy
> > tales.  The intersection would be Kinbote, who bridges those two worlds,
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> > stands with one foot in both but lives in neither (thus also a *reason*
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> > Kinbote, the subject of some debate here).
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> > This structure may also serve as a model for Shade and his poem and his
> > preoccupation with life-after-death, or, as Michael indicates, with author
> > and reader and the creative interpretive act; in both cases the
> > identification and creative use of a pattern that facilitates the
> derivation
> > of another world or condition, or at least represents the *striving*
> toward
> > that other world or condition.  (I'm beginning to see how Heidegger might
> > fit here.)
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