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Saturday, December 14, 2013
Tuesday, November 6, 2012
Bend Sinister
This morning's New York Times obituaries—
These suggest a look at Solving Nabokov's Lolita Riddle ,
by Joanne Morgan (Sydney: Cosynch Press, 2005).
That book discusses Lolita as a character like Lewis Carroll's Alice.
(The Red Queen and Alice of course correspond to figures in
the first two thumbnails above.)
From the obituary associated with the third thumbnail above:
"Front-page headlines combined concision and dark humor."
The title of this post, Bend Sinister , is not unlike such a headline.
It is the title of a novel by Nabokov (often compared with Orwell's 1984 )
that is discussed in the Lolita Riddle book.
Related material— The bend sinister found in Log24 searches
for Hexagram 14 and for the phrase Hands-On—
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Thursday, January 10, 2013
For Your Consideration
From the World Socialist Web Site:
Note the bend sinister in the address bar:
Related remarks:
Related music: "Pulled out of San Pedro late one night…"
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Thursday, November 8, 2012
Theory
Sean French, in a March 1998 New Statesman
review of a book on Wittgenstein and Hitler,
discusses the author's theory that …
"… the Jew who played the decisive role
in inspiring the Holocaust also played
the decisive role in bringing it to an end.
There is something heroic about this argument
and it would be a good subject for a novel about
the dangers of creating theories out of nothing.
Nabokov should have written it. It is not just
that there are weak links in the theory. There are
no links in the theory."
"Nabokov should have written it."… See Bend Sinister.
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