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[Ande]

Ada  --  someone mentioned Lolita when talking about mirrors--but Ada is 
rich with doubling and mirrors, and the imagined ... " lateral world, 
set only infinitesimally to the side of the one we know..."   much more 
Pynchonian than Lolita




David Morris wrote:

> And I was also disappointed by Ada, although I generally love Nabakov.
> I do think that Ada is actually a puzzle-text, that the surface story
> (diary) is only the surface of a very complex puzzle (much like the
> puzzle of Pale Fire, written just before Ada).  And somewhere central
> to the puzzle is the crazy/dead mother and her visions of the "Terrors
> of Terra."  Terra being the alternate universe to the one of the book.
> The problem is, Nabakov was so ingenious with this puzzle that no one
> has been able to scratch its surface.
>
> David Morris
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> On 5/19/07, Keith <keithsz at mac.com> wrote:
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>> The Recognitions completely blew me away. Only Gravity's Rainbow 
>> matches the joy that it brought/brings me. Oh, and Ada, by Nabokov.
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